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To project ourselves into their final thoughts will require feelings about a special kind of death - the sudden death in fire of the young, elite, unfulfilled, and seemingly unconquerable. As the elite of young men, they felt more surely than most who are young that they were immortal.

— Norman Maclean

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

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

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

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

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