Norman Maclean
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"Norman Fitzroy Maclean" was an American literature/American author and scholar noted for his books A River Runs Through It (novel)/A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (1976) and Young Men and Fire (1992).

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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. - A River Runs Through it.

How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions?

I sat there and forgot and forgot, until what remained was the river that went by and I who watched. On the river the heat mirages danced with each other and then they danced through each other and then they joined hands and danced around each other. Eventually the watcher joined the river, and there was only one of us. I believe it was the river.

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.

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. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful, even if it is only falling ash.