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New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
Jim Harrison
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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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Death steals everything except our stories.
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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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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.
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When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
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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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In a life properly lived, you're a river.
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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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A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
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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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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 old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.
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The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
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I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.
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What cannot be said, will get wept.
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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
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Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
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