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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.

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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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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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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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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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Death steals everything except our stories.
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I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
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We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
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What cannot be said, will get wept.
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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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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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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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The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.
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I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
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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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I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
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