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New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
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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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I do have trouble with titles.
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I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.
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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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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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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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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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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
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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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Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
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Zen is the vehicle of reality.
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The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth
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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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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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I can write anywhere.
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Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.
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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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