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How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
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 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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I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
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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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Death steals everything except our stories.
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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
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My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
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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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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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In a life properly lived, you're a river.
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I do have trouble with titles.
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I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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