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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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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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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.
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I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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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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I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
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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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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
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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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Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.
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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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In a life properly lived, you're a river.
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The days are stacked against what we think we are.
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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.
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Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
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Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, Que pasa, baby?
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I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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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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We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
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