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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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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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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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How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
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Zen is the vehicle of reality.
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I do have trouble with titles.
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I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.
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I wonder, when a writer's blocked and doesn't have any resources to pull himself out of it, why doesn't he jump in his car and drive around the U.S.A.? I went last winter for seven thousand miles and it was lovely. Inexpensive, too.
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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.
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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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The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.
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I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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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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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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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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New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
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In a life properly lived, you're a river.
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