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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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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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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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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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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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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 can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
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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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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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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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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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Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.
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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of 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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