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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North

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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
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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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