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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.
Jim Harrison
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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
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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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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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In a life properly lived, you're a river.
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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 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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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.
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I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
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I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.
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