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My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.

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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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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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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
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I can write anywhere.
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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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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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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 world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.
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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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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
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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 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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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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Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
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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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In a life properly lived, you're a river.
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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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We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
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Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
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When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
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