Thomas McGuane Quotes

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

The essence of sport is courage.

I like young girls. Their stories are shorter.

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

I considered the wonder of the things that befell me, convinced that my life was the best omelet you could make with a chainsaw.
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You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

I may be the wrong person for my life.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana.

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

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

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

It's funny, but ... you're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never know when it will befall you.

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

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

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

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.