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I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.

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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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New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
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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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When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
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Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
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I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.
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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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How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
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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.
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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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What cannot be said, will get wept.
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We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
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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 can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
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