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Thomas McGuane Biography

Thomas Francis McGuane III (born December 11, 1939) is an American writer. His work includes ten novels, short fiction and screenplays, as well as three collections of essays devoted to his life in the outdoors. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The National Cutting Horse Association Hall of Fame and the Flyfishing Hall of Fame.

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We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out.

Lakes, Life, Marine, Taken, Time

We both liked children; we just didn't want any ourselves. There were children everywhere, and we saw no reason to start our own brand. Young couples plunge into parenthood and about half the time they end up with some ghastly problem on their hands. We thought we'd leave that to others.

Children, Couple, Ghastly, Hands, Problem

I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness.

Accepting, Blindness, Dog, Friendship, Happy, Mean

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

Fishing, Kings, Lakes, Sport, Sports

Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.

Fishing, Helps, Lakes, Resist, Sea, World

The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.

Haul, Hazards, Long, Making, Point, Tickets

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

Cold, Fishing, Glimpse, Lakes, Sea, Water

I may be the wrong person for my life.

Life, May, Person, Persons, Wrong, Wrong Person

It's funny, but. . . you're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never know when it will befall you.

Fortune, Funny, Know, Moving, Target

I like young girls. Their stories are shorter.

Girl, Girls, I Like You, Like, Stories

By your late thirties the ground has begun to grow hard. It grows harder and harder until the day that it admits you.

Grow, Grows, Harder, Late, Thirties

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

Die, Ditch, Literature, Scary, Writing

After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.

Living, People, Significant Things, Thing, Work, Years

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

Life, Nevermind, Nobody, Nothing, Tell

Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana.

Freak, Freaks, Giving, Montana, Tradition

My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw

Chainsaw, Life, Make, Omelette

Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

Early, Lakes, Rivers, Sea, Teaching

The essence of sport is courage.

Courage, Essence, Sport, Sports

America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft that's 5000 millimeters off fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and still runs. We're in that kind of situation. We can have substantial parts of the population committing suicide, and still run and look fairly good.

America, Engines, Look, Population, Running, Suicide

The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.

Believe, Lakes, Present, Properly, Sea

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