"From my own experience I can say that a bad back makes you hike slower, stove-up knees keep you from wading confidently, tendinitis of the elbows buggers your casting, and a dose of giardia can send you dashing to the bushes fifteen times in an afternoon, but although none of this is fun, it's discernibly better than not fishing."

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Source : John Gierach (2012). “No Shortage of Good Days”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

John Gierach

#Fun Quotes #Lakes Quotes #Sea Quotes

“What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of death that all souls are one soul. Of what would you repent? Nothing. Nothing? One thing. I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion and against the monstrous facelessness of it and that I would stand a stone in the very void where all would read my name. Of that vanity I recant all.”
“The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.”

Source : Georges Bernanos (1955). “Last essays”
“O, the red rose may be fair, And the lily statelier; But my shamrock, one in three Takes the very heart of me!”

Source : Katharine Tynan (1887). “Shamrocks”
“The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.”
“Depression is a death within, a knowledge - terrifying - that you cannot resurrect yourself. Depression is loss of the vision that lets leaves breathe and fall, that lets the air smell of seed and soil. And there must be rage, yes I think there is rage toward such a severing, such a ragged-deep rupture with the world.”

Source : Lauren Slater (2012). “Welcome to My Country”, p.129, Anchor
“I honestly think vulnerability is a beautiful thing: it's tenderness, authenticity, and risk-taking. It means you're living a life where the stakes are high and you are continuing to push your own boundaries and learn new things. It keeps you flexible and young.”

Source : "Jaime Murray: Taking Care of Heart, Mind, and Body". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“There's only one growth strategy: work hard.”

Source : "Work harder, William Hague tells Britons". Interview with Patrick Hennessy, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 12, 2012.
“I cannot imagine a worse job than being president of these Untied States in these most trying of times. President Barack Obama has been under siege from every side for the entirety of his time in office.”

Source : "Obama and the Age of Unreason" by Beth Broderick, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2010.

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