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A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

Jim Harrison

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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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James Harrison
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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 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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How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
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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 rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.
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My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
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Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
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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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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
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When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
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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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Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.
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I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
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Dad said I would always be high minded and low waged from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.
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The days are stacked against what we think we are.
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We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
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