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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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Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.
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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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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 days are stacked against what we think we are.
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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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How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
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Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, Que pasa, baby?
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I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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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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Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
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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 see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
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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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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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Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.
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New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
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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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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
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Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
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