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"Life every now and then becomes literature- not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we best remember, and often enough so that what we eventually come to mean by life are those moments when life, instead of going sideways, backwards, forward, or nowhere at all, lines out straight, tense and inevitable, with a complication, climax, and, given some luck, a purgation, as if life had been made and not happened. " Norman Maclean, //USFS 1919//: //The Ranger//, p. 3

" One of life’s quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful." Norman Maclean, //A River Runs Through It//, p. 43