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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
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Baseball Player
Dentist
Film Producer
Novelist
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Screenwriter
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Zanesville
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Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.
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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
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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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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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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
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I love my work but do not know how I write it.
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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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Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.
Zane Grey
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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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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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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Jealously was an unjust and stifling thing.
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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.
Zane Grey
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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Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
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This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
Zane Grey
It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.
Zane Grey
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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Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
Zane Grey
