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I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.
Jim Harrison
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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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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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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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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
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The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.
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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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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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A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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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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Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, Que pasa, baby?
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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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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
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Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.
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