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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
James Harrison
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I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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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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Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
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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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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
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How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
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Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.
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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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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
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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 reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
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Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, Que pasa, baby?
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Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
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We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
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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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