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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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What cannot be said, will get wept.
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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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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 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 days are stacked against what we think we are.
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We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.
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Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
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In a life properly lived, you're a river.
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I can write anywhere.
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New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
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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 remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.
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Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.
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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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Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, Que pasa, baby?
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Death steals everything except our stories.
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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'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
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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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