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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 got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
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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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I can write anywhere.
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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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I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.
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What cannot be said, will get wept.
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Nothing on my trip thus far was as I expected which shows you that rather than simply read about the United States you have to log the journey.
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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
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The days are stacked against what we think we are.
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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.
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I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.
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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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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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We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
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We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.
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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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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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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
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How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
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