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Death steals everything except our stories.

Jim Harrison

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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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James Harrison
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Everything
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I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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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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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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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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My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
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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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The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.
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Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, Que pasa, baby?
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