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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
James Harrison
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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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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 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 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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A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
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New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
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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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