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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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The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
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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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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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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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I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
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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 do have trouble with titles.
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Zen is the vehicle of reality.
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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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Death steals everything except our stories.
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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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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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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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My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
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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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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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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
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In a life properly lived, you're a river.
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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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Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
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