“Something within fishermen tries to make fishing into a world perfect and apart—I don't know what it is or where, because sometimes it is in my arms and sometimes in my throat and sometimes nowhere in particular except somewhere deep. Many of us probably would be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect.”
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
“Legislative blocks are not always simply obstacles to be overcome.”
― War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority
― War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority
“I had long ago learned, sometimes to my sorrow, that Scottish piety is accompanied by a complete foreknowledge of sin. That's what we mean by original sin—we don't have to do it to know about it.”
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
“Things change. Time changes them. Great nations, and institutions, rethink. But only if they’re great.”
― The Time of Our Lives: Collected Writings
― The Time of Our Lives: Collected Writings
“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 brothers' keepers,” possessed of one of the oldest and possibly one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting of 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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