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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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I can write anywhere.
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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
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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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A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
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Perhaps when we die our names are takenfrom us by a divine magnet and are freeto flutter here and there within the bodies of birds.I'll be a simple crowwho can reach the top of Antelope Butte.(From: Hard Times)
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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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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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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
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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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We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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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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