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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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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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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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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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Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
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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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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 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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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
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Death steals everything except our stories.
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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 got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
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We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
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