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The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.

Jim Harrison

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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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Michigan
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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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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 see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
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How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
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Zen is the vehicle of reality.
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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 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'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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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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I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
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I can write anywhere.
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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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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'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
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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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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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