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I think he was just doing his best, getting along by going along with my mother, whose piety and evangelical fever had preoccupied her family since the last century. She knew no other world – God the Tyrant and supplicant humanity crawling on its belly to be forgiven for sins they never knew they’d committed. ‘It’s no sense defying the LORD,’ she told me. ‘He’s got all the coons up one tree.

I still don’t see why you think this is a matter of conviction when it’s just an extended bar fight.

I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by.

Napoleon said that if it weren’t for religion the poor would kill the rich. This may be all you needed to know about any human community. The churches were the real police stations, the real keepers of law and order.

I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something like this suggests what fishing ought to be about: using the ceremony of our sport and passion to arouse greater reverberations within ourselves.

The trouble is, you can’t properly present something you don’t believe in.

We want a little light to live by. A start somewhere. Little steps for little feet. Or even something commanding, scriptural or mighty. I myself am discouraged to finding a hot lead on the Altogether. Like every child of the century deluded enough to keep his head out of the noose, I expect God’s Mercy in the end. Nevertheless, I frequently feel that anybody’s refusal to commit suicide is a little fey. Walking about as though nothing were wrong is just too studied for the alert.

Generally, we are united in the belief that all rod design has been progressive and that the ideas about fly rods in the past were so bad as to make it amazing that people were able to fish at all.

After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody’s teeth.

The mountains paralleled the valley and the snowy peaks were extending with fall to the valley floor.

In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I’m going to start on that when I am much too old to do any of the two thousand things I can think of that are more fun than screening insects in cold running water.

Young anglers love new rivers the way they love the rest of their lives. Time does not seem to be of the essence and somewhere in the system is what they are looking for.

Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous.

Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.

Angling is extremely time consuming. That’s sort of the whole point.

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

I like young girls. Their stories are shorter.

I’d be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness.

You can’t say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it’s just what the deadbeat ordered.

We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity’s demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out.

Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

The essence of sport is courage.

he’d paid for should have led me to greater abstraction, but while it’s true that the farther you get from an actual product the better your chances for economic success, I and many of my classmates wanted more physical evidence of our efforts.

Crow Fair: Stories Quotes

Quinn wanted to make her see that people didn't live like this; but what was the use. No one was going to get her away from Bird Man out there.

Loneliness Quotes / Humor Quotes

npposiuAt the battle of Waterloo, men formed squares into which the wounded were brought for medical care. At the height of the battle, in the madness of the cannonading and death, the riderless horses of the cavalry, the caisson horses of the slaughtered gun crews attempted to penetrate the squares to be saved by the humans. And in the First World War, men subjected to unparalleled mayhem were stricken more by the plight of the horses than anything else. There is a special grief for the innocent caught up in mankind’s murderous follies.

My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw

Panama Quotes

At the battle of Waterloo, men formed squares into which the wounded were brought for medical care. At the height of the battle, in the madness of the cannonading and death, the riderless horses of the cavalry, the caisson horses of the slaughtered gun crews attempted to penetrate the squares to be saved by the humans. And in the First World War, men subjected to unparalleled mayhem were stricken more by the plight of the horses than anything else. There is a special grief for the innocent caught up in mankind’s murderous follies.

After the long time of going together and the mutual trust that had grown out of that time, Payne had occasion to realize that no mutual trust had grown out of the long time they had gone together.

The Bushwhacked Piano Quotes

She ate her breakfast in silence, then drove downtown in weather so lowering the streetlights seemed decapitated. This was when you could discover if your preparations for winter were adequate, and if you were ready for the restrictions of movement and light that were about to be upon you.

The Cadence of Grass Quotes

In Oakland, he saw two slum children sword fighting on a slag heap. In Palo Alto, a puffy fop in bursting jodhpurs shouted from the door of a luxurious stable, "My horse is soiled!" While one chilly evening in Union Square he listened to a wild-eyed young woman declaim that she had seen delicate grandmothers raped by Kiwanis zombies, that she had seen Rotarian blackguards bludgeoning Easter bunnies in a coal cellar, that she had seen Irving Berlin buying an Orange Julius in Queens.

The Bushwhacked Piano Quotes

They were unironic enthusiasts for all the mass pleasures the culture offered: television, NASCAR, cruises, Disney World, sports, celebrity gossip, and local politics. Szabo often wished that he could be as well adjusted as Melinda's family, but he would have had to be medicated to pursue her list of pleasures.

Culture Quotes Pleasures Quotes Pop culture Quotes Popular culture Quotes

I like to be tired. In some ways, that’s the point of what I do. I don’t want to be thinking when I go to bed, or, if there is some residue from the day, I want it to drain out and precipitate me into nothingness. I’ve always enjoyed the idea of nonexistence. I view pets with extraordinary suspicion: we need to stay out of their lives. I saw a woman fish a little dog out of her purse once, and it bothered me for a year. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with my ability to communicate: I have a cell phone, but I only use it to call out.

Crow Fair: Stories Quotes

The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.

Panama Quotes

They were unironic enthusiasts for all the mass pleasures the culture offered: television, NASCAR, cruises, Disney World, sports, celebrity gossip, and local politics.

By your late thirties the ground has begun to grow hard. It grows harder and harder until the day that it admits you.

Nobody's Angel Quotes

I considered the wonder of the things that befell me, convinced that my life was the best omelet you could make with a chainsaw. -- Panama

Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana.

Freaks Quotes Montana Quotes Tolerance Quotes

That food was so bad I can't wait for it to become a turd and leave me.

To Skin a Cat Quotes

We both liked children; we just didn't want any ourselves. There were children everywhere, and we saw no reason to start our own brand. Young couples plunge into parenthood and about half the time they end up with some ghastly problem on their hands. We thought we'd leave that to others.

Childlessness Quotes Children Quotes Parenthood Quotes Problems Quotes

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

Death Quotes Literature Quotes Writing Quotes Writing life Quotes

I may be the wrong person for my life.

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

Wisdom Quotes / Advice Quotes Humor Quotes