Zane Grey Quotes

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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.

  Zane Grey

  Hate, Grief, Fighting

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• Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter.

  Zane Grey

  Men, Six, Insult

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• If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

  Zane Grey

  Long Ago, Fishing, Trout

  Zane Grey (2000). “Tales of Southern Rivers”, p.130, Derrydale Press

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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.

  Zane Grey

  Inspiration, Achievement, Tasks

  Zane Grey (2015). “ZANE GREY Ultimate Collection: Historical Novels, Western Classics, Adventure Tales & Baseball Stories (60+ Titles in One Volume): Riders of the Purple Sage, The Border Legion, Wildfire, Desert Gold, Betty Zane, The Last Trail, The Heritage of the Desert, The Lone Star Ranger, Arizona Clan, To the Last Man, The Day of the Beast…”, p.7307, e-artnow

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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.

  Zane Grey

  Moon, Blue, Funny Things

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• Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time.

  Zane Grey

  Fishing, Mind, Bad Times

  "Tales of Southern Rivers".

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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.

  Zane Grey

  Men

  Zane Grey (2015). “Riders of the Purple Sage and the Rainbow Trail”, p.105, Macmillan

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• The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

  Zane Grey

  Difficulty, Ordeals

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• Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

  Zane Grey

  Men, Self, May

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• I need this wild life, this freedom.

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  Freedom, Wild Life, Needs

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• I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.

  Zane Grey

  Rainy Day, Light, Sky

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• There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

  Zane Grey

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

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• I will see this game of life out to its bitter end

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  Games, Bitterness, Bitter

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• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

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  Writing, Night, Silence

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• I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

  Zane Grey

  Lying, Knowing, Achievement

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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.

  Zane Grey

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Zane Grey (2000). “Tales of Fishing Virgin Sea”, p.154, Derrydale Press

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• Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

  Zane Grey

  Anniversary, Years, Love Grows

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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.

  Zane Grey

  Beautiful, Rivers, White

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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.

  Zane Grey

  Life, Suicide, Dark

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• What is writing but an expression of my own life?

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  Writing, Expression, My Own

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• Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.

  Zane Grey

  Mood, Salvation

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• Before exulatation had vanished, I felt as if I had been granted a marvellous privilege. Out of the inscrutable waters a beautiful fish had somehow leaped to show me fleetingly the life and spirit of his element.

  Zane Grey

  Beautiful, Lakes, Sea

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• Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.

  Zane Grey

  Realism

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• It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.

  Zane Grey

  New Year, Years, Decent

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• Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.

  Zane Grey

  Writing, Blood, Sweat

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