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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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James Harrison
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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
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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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Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, Que pasa, baby?
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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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Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
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Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
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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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When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
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Death steals everything except our stories.
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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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Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
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We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
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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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In a life properly lived, you're a river.
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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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What cannot be said, will get wept.
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The days are stacked against what we think we are.
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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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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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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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