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From: [e-mail] (Bert Nelson)
Subject: Quotes from A River Runs Through It
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"In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.  We
lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father
was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and
taught others.  He told us about Christ's diciples being fishermen, and were
left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fisherman on
the Sea of Galilee were dry fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a
dry-fly fisherman."

p. 1 A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean

"Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of
course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think
I shouldn't.  Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the
summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing
until the cool of the evening.  Then in the Arctic half-light of the
canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and
memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count
rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.

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

p. 113 A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean

Both of these quotes were used by director and narrator Robert Redford
in his movie, A River Runs Through It.

Bert Nelson
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