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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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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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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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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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My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
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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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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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How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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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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Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
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The days are stacked against what we think we are.
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I do have trouble with titles.
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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
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Death steals everything except our stories.
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Zen is the vehicle of reality.
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Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
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In a life properly lived, you're a river.
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