A River Runs Through It (1992)
Craig Sheffer: Norman Maclean
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Quotes
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Norman Maclean : The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana.
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Jessie Burns : If he came back next summer, would you try and help him?
Norman Maclean : If you wanted me to.
Jessie Burns : Well, he's not coming back.
Norman Maclean : Well, at least, he's got friends out there.
Jessie Burns : Who Ronald Coleman? Why is it the people who need the most help... won't take it?
Norman Maclean : I don't know, Jess.
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Norman Maclean : Dear Jesse, as the moon lingers a moment over the bitterroots, before its descent into the invisible, my mind is filled with song. I find I am humming softly; not to the music, but something else; some place else; a place remembered; a field of grass where no one seemed to have been; except a deer; and the memory is strengthened by the feeling of you, dancing in my awkward arms.
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Norman Maclean : My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night. But ah my foes, and oh my friends - it gives a lovely light.
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Norman Maclean : So, what do you think?
Jessie Burns : What do I think? I think it's the berries!
Norman Maclean : You do?
Jessie Burns : Yeah, to get away, Chicago. God, it's heaven!
Norman Maclean : Have you ever been?
Jessie Burns : No, not anywhere. Helena. Congratulations, Norman!
Norman Maclean : Truth is, I'm not sure I want to leave.
Jessie Burns : Montana? Why? It'll always be here.
Norman Maclean : Not Montana.
Jessie Burns : Then what? WHAT?
Norman Maclean : I'm not sure I want to leave you.
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Paul Maclean : Couldn't you find him?
Norman Maclean : The hell with him.
Paul Maclean : Well, I thought we were supposed to help him.
Norman Maclean : How the hell do you help that son of a bitch?
Paul Maclean : By taking him fishing.
Norman Maclean : He doesn't like fishing. He doesn't like Montana and he sure as hell doesn't like me.
Paul Maclean : Well, maybe what he likes is somebody trying to help him.
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Paul Maclean : As I live and breathe.
Rawhide : [hungover] Buster, here wants to fish.
Norman Maclean : You're late, Neal.
Neal Burns : Yeah, yeah, I didn't get in until late.
Paul Maclean : Well, I didn't get in at all, but I was here.
Norman Maclean : Neil, Paul. Paul, Neil.
Paul Maclean : Neal, in Montana, there's three thing we're never late for: church, work and fishing.
Neal Burns : [introducing Rawhide] Anywho this is...
Paul Maclean , Norman Maclean : [in uncaring unison] We've met.
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Norman Maclean : I'm in deep trouble.
Paul Maclean : Yep. Want me to come over and protect you?
