Some Kind of Wonderful - Confrontation of Personal Responsibility and Consequences
Hardy Jenns:
Look, I'm perfectly willing to forget this. Okay? I see no reason in carrying this on any longer. It was a joke. It's gone too far. It's over. Okay?
Keith Nelson: [turns to leave]
You want the truth? You want the plain truth? You're over.
Amanda Jones:
Are you just gonna leave?
Keith:
There isn't anything I could do to him that he hasn't already done to himself.
Jones: [comes up to Hardy; smiles at Hardy and slaps him... and slaps him again]
I wish I could live with that.
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A River Runs Through It - Haunted by Waters and Memories
Norman Maclean: [narrating; [fishing]
Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start ] until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise. 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 those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.
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A River Runs Through It - Reflections on Boyhood and Brotherhood
Norman Maclean: [narrating]
That was the only time we fought. Perhaps we wondered after which one of us was tougher. But if boyhood questions aren't answered before a certain point, they can't be raised again. So we returned to being gracious to one another, as the church well suggested.
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A River Runs Through It - Observations on Humanity Beyond Missoula
Norman Maclean:
The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana.
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A River Runs Through It - Reflections on Loss and Memory
Norman Maclean: [narrating]
As time passed, my father struggled for more to hold on to, asking me again and again: had I told him everything. And finally I said to him, "maybe all I really know about Paul is that he was a fine fisherman." "You know more than that," my father said; "he was beautiful." And that was the last time we ever spoke of my brother's death.
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A River Runs Through It - The Intersection of Faith and Fly Fishing
Norman Maclean: [narrating]
In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.
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A River Runs Through It - Insightful Reflection on the Burns Family
Norman Maclean:
The Burns family ran a general store in a one store town and still managed to do badly. They were Methodist, a denomination my father always referred to as Baptists who could read.
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A River Runs Through It - The Connection Between Grace and Art
Norman Maclean: [narrating]
My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things - trout as well as eternal salvation - came by grace; and grace comes by art; and art does not come easy.
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A River Runs Through It - The Intersection of Faith and Nature
Norman Maclean:
In my family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in Missoula, Montana where Indians still appeared out of the wilderness to walk the honky tonks and brothels of Front Street.
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A River Runs Through It - Understanding Through True Stories and Imagination
Norman Maclean: [narrating]
My father looked at me for a long time, just looked at me and this was the last he and I ever said to me about Paul's death. Indirectly though, he was present in many of our conversations. Once for instance, my father asked me a series of questions that suddenly made me wonder if I understood even my father, whom I felt closer to than any man I have ever known, "you like to tell true stories" he asked and I answered, "Yes, I like to tell stories that are true." Then he asked, "after you have finished your true stories sometime, why don't you make up a story and the people to go with it, only then will you understand what happened and why. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.
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