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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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I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
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Zen is the vehicle of reality.
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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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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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Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.
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I can write anywhere.
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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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New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
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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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I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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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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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.
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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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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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Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
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In a life properly lived, you're a river.
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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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