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Jim Harrison
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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
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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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A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
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Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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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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The days are stacked against what we think we are.
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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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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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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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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 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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Zen is the vehicle of reality.
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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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What cannot be said, will get wept.
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The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
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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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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
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