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Quotes from A River Runs Through It — Norman Maclean

1902–1990 United States

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Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

A River Runs Through It (1976)

The brain gives up a lot less easily than the body.

A River Runs Through It (1976)

"It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us."

A River Runs Through It (1976)

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.

A River Runs Through It (1976)

One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it is only a floating ash.

A River Runs Through It (1976)

It was now one of those moments when nothing remains but an opening in the sky and a story — and maybe something of a poem.

A River Runs Through It (1976)

My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things — trout as well as eternal salvation — come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

A River Runs Through It (1976)

Painted on one side of our Sunday school wall were the words, God is Love. We always assumed that these three words were spoken directly to the four of us in our family and had no reference to the world outside, which my brother and I soon discovered was full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the farther one gets from Missoula, Montana.

A River Runs Through It (1976)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Norman Maclean (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.