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- We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas.
- Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point. Thomas McGuane. Fishing, Trout, Consuming.
- I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness. Thomas McGuane. Friendship, Dog, Mean.
- America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft that's 5000 millimeters off fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and still runs.
35 quotes from Thomas McGuane: 'It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.', 'I may be the wrong person for my life.', and 'Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.'.
- I've spent as much of my life fishing as decency allowed, and sometimes I don't let even that get in my way.
- I've outlived my parents, and I've had some wonderful second chances in life. I feel remarkably uncheated.
- I strongly believe that literature can do something that nothing else can do, and that is embody the human spirit.
- I think anybody alert to the inspiration to write has to be kind of sensitized to the unexpected.
- I've spent as much of my life fishing as decency allowed, and sometimes I don't let even that get in my way. Thomas McGuane. Share this Top 10 list.
- I've outlived my parents, and I've had some wonderful second chances in life. I feel remarkably uncheated. Thomas McGuane. 1.
- I had a passionate zest for Key West life in all of its little details. I'm not sure why or where that came from, but I was so excited to be there. Thomas McGuane.
- I think there's only one interesting story... and that's struggle. Thomas McGuane. 3.
The Longest Silence Quotes Showing 1-6 of 6. “He paused long enough for me to consider how wonderful life could be when it had great literature-style items, such as coincidence and fate and elegant ironies.”. ― Thomas McGuane, The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing. 1 likes.
- Thomas McGuane
- 1999
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