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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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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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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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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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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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The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.
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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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Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
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My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
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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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Death steals everything except our stories.
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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
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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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I can write anywhere.
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Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.
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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
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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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