Zane Grey Quotes
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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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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Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time.
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At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And its not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you , and once in a while people may even take your breath away.
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Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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I love my work but do not know how I write it.
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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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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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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
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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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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
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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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Jealously was an unjust and stifling thing.
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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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I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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What is writing but an expression of my own life?
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.
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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 see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.
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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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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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I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
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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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Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger; To smile when tears are close; To resist disease and evil men and base instincts; To hate hate and to love love; To go on when it would seen good to die; To look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great.
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I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
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