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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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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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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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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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So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.
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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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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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New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
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The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
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Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.
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Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
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When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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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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I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
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In a life properly lived, you're a river.
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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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What cannot be said, will get wept.
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We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
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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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