Norman Maclean

Person · Open Library

Born

1902

Died

1990

Works

23

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Active from

1936-12-26

Active to

2017-08-31

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

108

Total plays

641

Norman Hector Mackinnon Maclean (Scottish Gaelic: Tormod MacGill-Eain, Glasgow, Scotland, 26 December 1936 – 31 August 2017) was a Scottish Gaelic comedian, novelist, poet, musician and broadcaster. He is the only person to have won both Bardic Crown and Gold Medal at the same Royal National Mòd (the main festival of Scottish Gaelic literature, song, arts and culture). His struggles with alcoholism are documented in his autobiography, The Leper's Bell: Autobiography of a Changeling. <a href="htt

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities

   · 2000 · cited 23,009x

2. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,612x

3. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,770x

4. The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis

   · 1988 · cited 15,808x

5. Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 10,800x

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Quotes

• “Scholars are still in search of the exact meaning of certain speeches in each of Shakespeare’s great tragedies — and we should like to assume that those who saw these plays for the first time did not have perfect understanding of all of the lines — but so great was Shakespeare’s power to conceive of action from which thought and feeling can be readily inferred that all of us know Lear, Hamlet, and Macbeth more intimately than we know many men whose remarks we understand perfectly.”
• “In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.”
• “As a Scot and a Presbyterian, my father believed that man by nature was a mess and had fallen from an original state of grace. Somehow, I early developed the notion that he had done this by falling from a tree. As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and that only by picking up God's rhythms were we able to regain power and beauty. Unlike many Presbyterians, he often used the word "beautiful."”
• “My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things — trout as well as eternal salvation — come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.”
• “Painted on one side of our Sunday school wall were the words, God is Love. We always assumed that these three words were spoken directly to the four of us in our family and had no reference to the world outside, which my brother and I soon discovered was full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the farther one gets from Missoula, Montana.”
• “The brain gives up a lot less easily than the body.”

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