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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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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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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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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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The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
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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 rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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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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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
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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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My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
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