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Zane Grey Biography

Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his best-selling book. In addition to the commercial success of his printed works, they had second lives and continuing influence when adapted as films and television productions. His novels and short stories have been adapted into 112 films, two television episodes, and a television series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.

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Far away Tongariro! Green - white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift cold waters of this most beautiful and famous of trout streams. It is something to have striven. It is much to have kept your word.

Beautiful, Lakes, River, Sea, Streams, Swift

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

Difficulty, Ordeal, Ordeals, Start

Jealousy is an unjust and stifling thing.

Jealousy, Stifling, Thing, Unjust

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

Achievement, Eagerness, Energy, Knowing, Lies, Lying

I will see this game of life out to its bitter end

Bitter, Bitterness, Game, Games, Life, See

I love my work but do not know how I write it.

Know How, Knows, Love, Work, Write, Writing

Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

Life, Love, Man, Men, Nature, Woman

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

Fishing, Lakes, Matter, Sea, Supreme, Weakness

This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

Distracted, Motion Pictures, Muddle, Writing

Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger; To smile when tears are close; To resist disease and evil men and base instincts; To hate hate and to love love; To go on when it would seen good to die; To look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great.

Base, Fighting, Grief, Hate, Recipe

If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

Ended, Fishing, Long Ago, Trips, Trout

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

Confess, Inspire, Pleasure, Proofs, Reading, Stimulates

I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.

Aches, Feet, Hands, Head, Tired, Weakness

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

Appreciation, Connected, Overdoing, Overdoing It, Thinking, Writer

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

Angler, Capable, Fish, Fishing, Lakes, Sea

Fishing is a condition of the mind wherein one cannot have a bad time.

Bad Times, Condition, Fishing, Mind, Time

At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And its not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you , and once in a while people may even take your breath away.

Away, Blue, Funny Things, Like, Moon, Take

Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.

Death, Life, Realism, Stand

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

Everyone, Night, Silence, Writing

The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

He Man, Indian, Men, Stories, Story, Written

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