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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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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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In a life properly lived, you're a river.
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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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The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
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Zen is the vehicle of reality.
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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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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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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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Death steals everything except our stories.
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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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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
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What cannot be said, will get wept.
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Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
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I do have trouble with titles.
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New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
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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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It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you wanted. Perhaps it's standing thigh deep in a river with the water passing at the exact but varying speed of life. You easily recognize this mortality and it dissipates into the landscape.
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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
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The days are stacked against what we think we are.
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