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Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
Zane Grey
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Zane Grey
Age: 67 †
Born: 1872
Born: January 31
Died: 1939
Died: October 23
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Baseball Player
Dentist
Film Producer
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Poet
Screenwriter
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Zanesville
Ohio
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More quotes by Zane Grey
There are always greater fish than you have caught, always the lure of greater task and achievement, always the inspiration to seek, to endure, to find.
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I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.
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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
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Far away Tongariro! Green - white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift cold waters of this most beautiful and famous of trout streams. It is something to have striven. It is much to have kept your word.
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There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.
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I love my work but do not know how I write it.
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What is writing but an expression of my own life?
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If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
Zane Grey
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.
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I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
Zane Grey
It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.
Zane Grey
Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.
Zane Grey
