Poets talk about "spots of time," but it is really fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is gone.
in Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It
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my favorite line, ostensibly about fishing, is
Power comes not from power everywhere but from knowing where to put it on.
Ohhh ... great line! Is that from A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT? It has been two or three years since I last read it.
page 4 in my copy; excellent story
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