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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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Michigan
James Harrison
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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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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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Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
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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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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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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.
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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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Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.
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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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When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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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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Zen is the vehicle of reality.
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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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Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
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Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
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The days are stacked against what we think we are.
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The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
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