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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.

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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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James Harrison
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I wonder, when a writer's blocked and doesn't have any resources to pull himself out of it, why doesn't he jump in his car and drive around the U.S.A.? I went last winter for seven thousand miles and it was lovely. Inexpensive, too.
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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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I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
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My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
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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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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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