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What cannot be said, will get wept.

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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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Grayling
Michigan
James Harrison
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My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
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In a life properly lived, you're a river.
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I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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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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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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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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