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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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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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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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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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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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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 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 don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
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I can write anywhere.
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Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.
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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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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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