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The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.

Jim Harrison

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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.
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When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
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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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Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
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Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.
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I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
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The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth
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I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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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 world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.
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Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.
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My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
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What cannot be said, will get wept.
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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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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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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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Death steals everything except our stories.
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