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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.

Jim Harrison

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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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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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I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
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Nothing on my trip thus far was as I expected which shows you that rather than simply read about the United States you have to log the journey.
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What cannot be said, will get wept.
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Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, Que pasa, baby?
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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 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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I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
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Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
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Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.
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I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.
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I do have trouble with titles.
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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 got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
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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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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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I can write anywhere.
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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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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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