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Quotes from Young Men and Fire — Norman Maclean

1902–1990 United States

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A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help.

Young Men and Fire (1992)

It shouldn't be hard to imagine just what most of the crew must have thought when they first looked across the open hill-side and saw their boss seemingly playing with a matchbook in dry grass.

Young Men and Fire (1992)

Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts — hopefully, even the arch to the sky.

Young Men and Fire (1992)

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