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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
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Film Producer
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Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert
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Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time.
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Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.
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This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
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Before exulatation had vanished, I felt as if I had been granted a marvellous privilege. Out of the inscrutable waters a beautiful fish had somehow leaped to show me fleetingly the life and spirit of his element.
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Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
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I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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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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Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter.
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I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
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Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.
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Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.
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If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.
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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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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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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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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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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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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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