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The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana.

If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know
how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions.

I knew that, when needed, mountains would move for me.

One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing

It is not fly fishing if you are not looking for answers to questions.

That's how you know when you have thought too much-- when you become a dialogue between You'll probably lose and You're sure to lose.

Life every now and then becomes literature ... as if life had been made and not happened.

They were still so young they hadn't learned to count the odds and to sense they might owe the universe a tragedy.

A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.

We can love completely what we cannot completely understand.

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

I hope there are others also who don't mind trees.

Somehow it's hard to quit with an odd number of fish, so I wanted one more for four,

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

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help.

...it is natural for man to try to attain power without recovering grace...(3)

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.

What a beautiful world it was once. At least a river of it was.

Time was just a hangover from the past with no present meaning

You can love completely without complete understanding."
"That I have known and preached." my father said.

Power comes not from power everywhere, but from knowing where to put it on.

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect

I am haunted by waters.

Help is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.

The most sublime of oddballs, Leonardo da Vinci

If you push me far enough, all I really know is that he was a fine fisherman."
"You know more than that," my father said. "He was beautiful.

I tried to find something I already knew about life that might help me reach out and touch my brother and get him to look at me and himself.

When exhausted and feeling sorry for yourself, at least change your socks.

The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.