"At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books."

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Source : Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.63, University of Chicago Press

Norman Maclean

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“If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.”
“Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.”
“After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.”

Source : Robert Hass, “Meditation At Lagunitas”
“Our nation is rich and our people can be rich. 2014 elections is a fight against poverty.”
“Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!”
“Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.”
“Everything will be better in the morning.Â It always is.”

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