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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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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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When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
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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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Zen is the vehicle of reality.
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Death steals everything except our stories.
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Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
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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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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.
Jim Harrison
We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
Jim Harrison
I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
Jim Harrison
What cannot be said, will get wept.
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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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Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
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How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
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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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Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.
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Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
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Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, Que pasa, baby?
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I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.
Jim Harrison
I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
Jim Harrison
