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Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.

Jim Harrison

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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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Essayist
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Grayling
Michigan
James Harrison
Life
Anonymously
Albeit
Delivered
Honor

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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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New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
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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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Death steals everything except our stories.
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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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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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I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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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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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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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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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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In a life properly lived, you're a river.
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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
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How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
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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 got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
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