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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
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In a life properly lived, you're a river.
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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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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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Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.
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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
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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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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 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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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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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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Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
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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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When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
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I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.
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I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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Zen is the vehicle of reality.
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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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