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In a life properly lived, you're a river.

Jim Harrison

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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
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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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