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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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I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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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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How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
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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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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
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Zen is the vehicle of reality.
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What cannot be said, will get wept.
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We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
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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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Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.
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I do have trouble with titles.
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