Zane Grey Quotes

Pearl Zane Grey 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 was his best-selling book.

In addition to the commercial success of his printed works, his books have 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. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. January 1872 – 23. October 1939
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Famous Zane Grey Quotes

“We'll use a signal I have tried and found far-reaching and easy to yell. Waa-hoo!”

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The Last of the Plainsmen (1908).

“!-- 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 evil men and base instincts — to hate hate and to love love — to go on when it would seem good to die — to seek ever after the glory and the dream — to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be — that is what any man can do, and so be great.”

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As quoted in The North American Almanac (1931), p. 54, this sometimes published with a prefix "Recipe for greatness —" but this does not appear in the earliest versions of it yet located.<!-- also in 1000 Brilliant Achievement Quotes: Advice from the World's Wisest (2004) by David DeFord, p. 92 -->

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

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Tales of Southern Rivers (1924).

“Don't look back!”

Zane Grey book Riders of the Purple Sage

Riders of the Purple Sage (1912).

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