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Despite all the lofty claims made in these books, my writing remains and will always remain about Trout Fishing in America and about Raise High the Roof Beams.

“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 the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.”

— NORMAN MACLEAN, A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT

“After he graduated from college, he went to Paris and became an Existentialist. He had a photograph taken of Existentialism and himself sitting at a sidewalk cafe. Pard was wearing a beard and he looked as if he had a huge soul, with barely enough room in his body to contain it.”

— RICHARD BRAUTIGAN, TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA “Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion.”

— J.D. S A L I N G E R , R A I S E H I G H T H E R O O F B E A M , CARPENTERS & SEYMOUR: AN INTRODUCTION

“Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.”

— THOMAS PYNCHON, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW