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Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.

Zane Grey

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Zane Grey
Age: 67 †
Born: 1872
Born: January 31
Died: 1939
Died: October 23
Author
Baseball Player
Dentist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Zanesville
Ohio
Work
Moods
Mood
Salvation
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Jealously was an unjust and stifling thing.
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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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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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Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.
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If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.
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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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This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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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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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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Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter.
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What is writing but an expression of my own life?
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Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
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A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.
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I will see this game of life out to its bitter end
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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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.
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