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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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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
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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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Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
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I can write anywhere.
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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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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 thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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