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• Help, he said, is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.
  -- Norman Maclean _A River Runs Through It_...
• Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.
  The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time....
• At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.
  You can love completely without complete understanding....
• As a little silvery circular ripple, set in motion by the falling pebble
  expands from its inch of radius to the whole compass of a pool, so there is not a child--not an infant Moses--placed, however softly, in his bulrush ark upon the sea of time, whose existence does not stir a ripple, gyrating outward and on, until it shall have moved across and spanned the whole ocean of God's eternity, stirring even the river of life, and the fountains at which the angels drink....
• In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.
  We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others....
• As Zeus said to Narcissus, "Watch yourself.