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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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Grayling
Michigan
James Harrison
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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 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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Zen is the vehicle of reality.
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My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
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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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I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
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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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I can write anywhere.
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I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.
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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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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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We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
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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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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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When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
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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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Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.
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