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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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The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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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 see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
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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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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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I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
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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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