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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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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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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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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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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
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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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Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
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I do have trouble with titles.
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The days are stacked against what we think we are.
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New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
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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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How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
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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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The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.
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Death steals everything except our stories.
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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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What cannot be said, will get wept.
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My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
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I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
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