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Norman Maclean Quotes: Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect
         

Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect


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The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.



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