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Jim Harrison Inspirational Quotes (51)

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So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.
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When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
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Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
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Zen is the vehicle of reality.
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I do have trouble with titles.
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A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
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I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
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Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, Que pasa, baby?
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We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
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I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
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The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.
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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.
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New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
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In a life properly lived, you're a river.
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We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.
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It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you wanted. Perhaps it's standing thigh deep in a river with the water passing at the exact but varying speed of life. You easily recognize this mortality and it dissipates into the landscape.
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I wonder, when a writer's blocked and doesn't have any resources to pull himself out of it, why doesn't he jump in his car and drive around the U.S.A.? I went last winter for seven thousand miles and it was lovely. Inexpensive, too.
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Dad said I would always be high minded and low waged from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.
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Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
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The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.
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