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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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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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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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Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.
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Perhaps when we die our names are takenfrom us by a divine magnet and are freeto flutter here and there within the bodies of birds.I'll be a simple crowwho can reach the top of Antelope Butte.(From: Hard Times)
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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 don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
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I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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