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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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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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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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Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, Que pasa, baby?
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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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Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.
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I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.
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When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
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The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
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Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
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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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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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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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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of 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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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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My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
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Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
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I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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Zen is the vehicle of reality.
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The days are stacked against what we think we are.
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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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