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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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Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
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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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My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
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The days are stacked against what we think we are.
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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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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 reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
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Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
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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 can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
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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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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
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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 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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I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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Death steals everything except our stories.
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In a life properly lived, you're a river.
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I do have trouble with titles.
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