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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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Michigan
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How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
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In a life properly lived, you're a river.
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Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.
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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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The days are stacked against what we think we are.
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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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I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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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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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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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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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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Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.
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We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
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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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The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
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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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I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
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Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
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