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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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Michigan
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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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How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
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Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
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The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
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Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.
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Death steals everything except our stories.
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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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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
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I do have trouble with titles.
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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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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
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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'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
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Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, Que pasa, baby?
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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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The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.
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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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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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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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