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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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Grayling
Michigan
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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 see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
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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 don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
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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 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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A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
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We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
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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 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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Zen is the vehicle of reality.
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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 rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.
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Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
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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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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
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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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