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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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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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Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.
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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
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Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
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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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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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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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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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I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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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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Dad said I would always be high minded and low waged from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.
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I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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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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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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Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.
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We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
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The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
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