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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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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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When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
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How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
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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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I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
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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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We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.
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Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, Que pasa, baby?
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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 don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
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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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The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
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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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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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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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