Top 93 Zane Grey Quotes
#1. strong, stirring instant as with fascinated eyes I watched
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#2. What is writing but an expression of my own life?
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#3. Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.
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#4. You and I will never live to see the day that women recover their balance.
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#5. Aunt Mary, you hurt my feelings." "Well, child, I'm glad to learn your feelings are hurt," returned the aunt. "I'm sure, Carley, that underneath all this--this blase ultra something you've acquired, there's a real heart. Only you must hurry and listen to it--or--
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#6. These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.
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#7. You must use that hope an' faith to help you get well.
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#8. Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert
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#9. I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.
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#10. An awful sense of her deadness, of her soul-blighting selfishness, began to dawn upon her as something monstrous out of dim, gray obscurity.
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#11. perhaps he and this man, alone on the desert, driven there by life's mysterious and remorseless motive, were to see each other through God's eyes. His
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#12. Pride would never be her ally.
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#13. I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.
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#14. Hard work makes for what I reckon you like in a man, but don't understand. As I look back over my life--an' let me say, young fellar, it's been a tough one--what I remember most an' feel best over are the hardest jobs I ever did, an' those that cost the most sweat an' blood." As
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#15. Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
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#16. Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter.
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#17. Fishing keeps men boys longer than any other pursuit
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#18. Life is hard enough, God knows, but it's unfailin' true in the end to the man or woman who finds the best in them an' stands by it." "Uncle John, y'u talk so - so
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#19. No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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#20. I will see this game of life out to its bitter end.
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#21. When I envied a man's spurs then they were indeed worth coveting.
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#22. Mister Hawe, you come along, not satisfied with ropin
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#23. 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.
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#24. the strong feeling beginning to be manifested to Wade was not the fun of matching wits and luck with his antagonists, nor a desire to accumulate money--for his recklessness disproved that--but the liberation of the gambling passion.
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#25. Did not at first give vague disappointment, a confounding of reality, a disenchantment of contrast with what the mind had conceived.
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#26. We must dress to make other women jealous and to attract men.
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#27. Unless you begin to control your temper, to forget yourself, to kill your wild impulses, to be kind, to learn what love is--you'll never last!...
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#28. I love my work but do not know how I write it.
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#29. I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.
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#30. Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
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#31. False education, false standards, false environment had developed her into a woman who imagined she must feed her body on the milk and honey of indulgence.
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#32. There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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#33. Likewise he believed that men wandering or lost in the wilderness often reversed that brutal order of life and became noble, wonderful, super-human.
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#34. the false courage of association with a crowd.
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#35. Surely with all its greatness it could not be lost; surely in the end it must triumph over evil.
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#36. But he clung to hope, to faith in life, to the victory of the virtuous, to the defeat of evil.
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#37. I need this wild life, this freedom.
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#38. This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
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#39. Dad, I don't know women very well, but I reckon they live by their hearts. You
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#40. Unhappiness is only a change. Happiness itself is only change. So what does it matter? The great thing is to see life--to understand--to feel--to work--to fight--to endure.
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#41. I will live them. I will have faith and hope and love, for I am his daughter," she said.
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#42. Jealousy is an unjust and stifling thing.
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#43. I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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#44. I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.
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#45. I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.
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#46. If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.
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#47. I knew youd never be American enough to help me reconstruct my life.
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#48. the trail, and returned home as he had left, stealthily, like an Indian.
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#49. only back of the bar. A white-clad figure rushed
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#50. Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
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#51. Once he had said to her that a man should never be judged by the result of his labors, but by the nature of his effort.
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#52. Carley saw two forces in life--the destructive and constructive. On the one side greed, selfishness, materialism: on the other generosity, sacrifice, and idealism.
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#53. wild men in wild places, fighting cold, heat, starvation, thirst, barrenness, facing the elements in all their ferocity, usually retrograded, descended to the savage, lost all heart and soul and became mere brutes.
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#54. And of storehouses and of freight-trains - destruction
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#55. The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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#56. The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.
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#57. Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
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#58. Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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#59. There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.
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#60. A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.
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#61. Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.
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#62. keep me from ridin' trail. But you're acting
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#63. twenty-foot-square, furious splash as he hooked himself. I sat spellbound. I
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#64. With distrust came suspicion and with suspicion came fear, and with fear came hate--and these, in already distorted minds, inflamed a hell.
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#65. Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.
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#66. Halt! ... " Wade leaped at the white Belllounds. "If you run I'll break a leg for you
an' then I'll beat your miserable brains out! ... Have you no sense? Can't you recognize what's comin'? ... I'm goin' to kill you, Buster Jack!"
"My God!" whispered the other, understanding fully at last.
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#67. Get up, an' take my scarf," said Wade, "an' bandage these bullet-holes I got.
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#68. I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
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#69. I am waiting to plunge down, to shatter and crash, roar and boom, to bury your trail, and close forever the outlet to Deception Pass!
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#70. 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.
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#71. Oh, Glenn!--forgive--me! " she faltered. "I was only--talking. What do I know? Oh, I am blind--blind and little!
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#72. I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
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#73. Aboot the gold Syvertsen stole
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#74. No nerve, hey? Not half a man! ... Buster Jack, why don't you finish game? Make up for your low-down tricks. At the last try to be worthy of your dad. In his day he was a real man ... Let him have the consolation that you faced Hell-Bent Wade an' died in your boots!
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#75. Red Lake must be his Rubicon. Either he must enter the unknown to seek, to strive, to find, or turn back and fail and never know and be always haunted.
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#76. 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.
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#77. Morning dawned bright and sparkling after the rain. The air was keen and crisp. The cedars glistened as if decked with diamonds. Pan felt the sweet scent of the damp dust, and it gave him a thrill and a longing for the saddle and the open country.
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#78. I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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#79. 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.
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#81. But what can women do in times of war? They help, they cheer, they inspire, and if their cause is lost they must accept death or worse. Few women have the courage for self-destruction. "To the victor belong the spoils," and women have ever been the spoils of war.
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#82. Fishing is a condition of the mind wherein one cannot have a bad time.
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#83. The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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#84. All the saddle horses, and even some of the pack animals, were affected by the scent of the wild herd. Freedom still lived deep down in their hearts. That was why a broken horse, no matter how gentle, became the wildest of the wild when he got free.
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#85. With that they, and many others, left the hall and joined the moving crowd in the street. The night was delightfully cool. Stars shone white in a velvet sky. The dry wind from mountain and desert blew in their faces. Pan
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#86. I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
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#87. Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.
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#88. It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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#90. Jack had met me half-way that would have been better for him. An' for me, because I get good out of helpin' any one." His
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#91. What's all the row over at Ben's?" [Mrs. Ide] inquired, placidly, from her comfortable chair.
"Rustlers, cattle, foremen, sheriffs, and Heaven only knows what," replied Hettie, distractedly.
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#93. Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.
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