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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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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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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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A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
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What cannot be said, will get wept.
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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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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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How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
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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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Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, Que pasa, baby?
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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
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Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
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Zen is the vehicle of reality.
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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'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.
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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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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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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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I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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