John Zybko
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“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.”
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
I am haunted by waters.”
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
“All the world’s great inventors started with practical knowledge and skills. We need that today as much as we ever did.”
― The Mystery of the Abecedarian Academy
― The Mystery of the Abecedarian Academy
“So it is that we can seldom help anybody. Either we don't know what part to give or maybe we don't like to give any part of ourselves. Then, more often than not, the part that is needed is not wanted. And even more often, we do not have the part that is needed.”
― A River Runs Through It
― A River Runs Through It
“We can love completely what we cannot completely understand.”
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
“Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers," possessed of one of the oldest and possible one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting instincts. It will not let us go.”
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
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