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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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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 days are stacked against what we think we are.
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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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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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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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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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I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
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Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
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