Quote

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

Jim Harrison

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
Author
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Grayling
Michigan
James Harrison
Genuine
Question
Race
Sociability
Michigan
Mississippi
Races

More quotes by Jim Harrison

Image
New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
Jim Harrison
Image
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
Jim Harrison
Image
The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
Jim Harrison
Image
My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
Jim Harrison
Image
Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.
Jim Harrison
Image
I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
Jim Harrison
Image
Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
Jim Harrison
Image
Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
Jim Harrison
Image
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)
Jim Harrison
Image
Zen is the vehicle of reality.
Jim Harrison
Image
The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.
Jim Harrison
Image
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.
Jim Harrison
Image
Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.
Jim Harrison
Image
Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
Jim Harrison
Image
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.
Jim Harrison
Image
Death steals everything except our stories.
Jim Harrison
Image
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.
Jim Harrison
Image
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.
Jim Harrison
Image
I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
Jim Harrison
Image
I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.
Jim Harrison