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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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Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.
Jim Harrison
The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
Jim Harrison
I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
Jim Harrison
I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
Jim Harrison
What cannot be said, will get wept.
Jim Harrison
Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
Jim Harrison
Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
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I can write anywhere.
Jim Harrison
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.
Jim Harrison
The days are stacked against what we think we are.
Jim Harrison
When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
Jim Harrison
Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.
Jim Harrison
The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
Jim Harrison
I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.
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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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Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
Jim Harrison
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.
Jim Harrison
Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
Jim Harrison
The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.
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Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, Que pasa, baby?
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