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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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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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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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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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A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
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I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.
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Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
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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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The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.
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In a life properly lived, you're a river.
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When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
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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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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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What cannot be said, will get wept.
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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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Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, Que pasa, baby?
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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
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