Quote

The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.

Jim Harrison

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
Author
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Grayling
Michigan
James Harrison
Quit
Quitting
Avoid
Reason
Moderate
Moderates

More quotes by Jim Harrison

Image
Dad said I would always be high minded and low waged from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.
Jim Harrison
Image
I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
Jim Harrison
Image
Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.
Jim Harrison
Image
What cannot be said, will get wept.
Jim Harrison
Image
I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
Jim Harrison
Image
I can write anywhere.
Jim Harrison
Image
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.
Jim Harrison
Image
Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
Jim Harrison
Image
The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
Jim Harrison
Image
I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
Jim Harrison
Image
I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.
Jim Harrison
Image
Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
Jim Harrison
Image
The days are stacked against what we think we are.
Jim Harrison
Image
Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
Jim Harrison
Image
Nothing on my trip thus far was as I expected which shows you that rather than simply read about the United States you have to log the journey.
Jim Harrison
Image
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
Jim Harrison
Image
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)
Jim Harrison
Image
Death steals everything except our stories.
Jim Harrison
Image
How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
Jim Harrison
Image
I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
Jim Harrison