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Zen is the vehicle of reality.

Jim Harrison

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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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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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My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
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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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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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Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
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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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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 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 thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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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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New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
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I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.
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The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth
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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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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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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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What cannot be said, will get wept.
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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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