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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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Michigan
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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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Zen is the vehicle of reality.
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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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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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The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
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The days are stacked against what we think we are.
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New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
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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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Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.
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Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, Que pasa, baby?
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Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
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I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
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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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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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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
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I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.
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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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