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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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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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In a life properly lived, you're a river.
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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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Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
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I can write anywhere.
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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'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.
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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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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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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 got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
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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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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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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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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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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 thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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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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What cannot be said, will get wept.
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