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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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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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Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.
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In a life properly lived, you're a river.
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Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
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I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
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Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.
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What cannot be said, will get wept.
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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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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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Zen is the vehicle of reality.
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New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
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I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.
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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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I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
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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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When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
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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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Death steals everything except our stories.
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