Norman Maclean
Norman Maclean
Norman Fitzroy Macleanwas an American author and scholar noted for his books A River Runs Through It and Other Storiesand Young Men and Fire...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 December 1902
CountryUnited States of America
giving needs helping
Help is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.
complete elude love luminous river runs sunrise
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding. - A River Runs Through it
taken people feelings
It is very important to a lot of people to make unmistakably clear to themselves and to the universe that they love the universe but are not intimidated by it and will not be shaken by it, no matter what it has in store. Moreover, they demand something from themselves early in life that can be taken ever after as a demonstration of this abiding feeling.
cases hardest behinds
The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.
teacher perfect enough
When I was young, a teacher had forbidden me to say "more perfect" because she said if a thing is perfect it can't be more so. But by now I had seen enough of life to have regained my confidence in it.
water
I am haunted by waters.
idaho mountain world
Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.
father sea fishing
If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.
silence enemy silent
Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
death young reach-out
Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand when I was young are dead, but I still reach out to them.
lifetime asks
How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions.
sea fishing dry
He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fisherman and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.
art father fishing
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.
summer memories thinking
Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.