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“To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.”
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“Story is life seen through the honey jar, slightly distorted by personal experience, perception, inclination, and fancy. ... The fish gets a little bigger, the storm gets a little wilder, the love gets a little stronger ... ”
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“Writing is something warm and dependable to snuggle up to when everything else is in flux. It's a little secret that you carry with you in public — the knowledge that you alone have the ability to escape to a wonderland where you can make anything happen.”
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“One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change ...”
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“The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.”
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“Fly fishing moments are often solitary and fleeting, but they are deeply and sometimes inexplicably compelling. Those who survive the trials of the neophyte — fatal casts, sodden waders and fishless days — to become fluent in the muted colors and dignified prose of fly fishing, know the magic it can work: a soul scrubbed clean of life's trivia, the experience of witnessing nature's subtle rhythms, the possibility of a perfect day.”
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“The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable.”
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“A dream is an all-powerful, intense wish for yourself. It's your heart talking. A goal is how your head plans to realize it.”