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Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, Que pasa, baby?

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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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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'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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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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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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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.
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The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.
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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'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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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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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 simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth
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