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Zen is the vehicle of reality.

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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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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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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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I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
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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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Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.
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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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New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
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Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
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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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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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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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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
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I can write anywhere.
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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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I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
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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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Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
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I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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The days are stacked against what we think we are.
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