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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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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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I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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Nothing on my trip thus far was as I expected which shows you that rather than simply read about the United States you have to log the journey.
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Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.
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I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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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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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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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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I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.
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Death steals everything except our stories.
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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
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Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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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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I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
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I do have trouble with titles.
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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.
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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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Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
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In a life properly lived, you're a river.
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