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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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Grayling
Michigan
James Harrison
Life
Anonymously
Albeit
Delivered
Honor

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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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Zen is the vehicle of reality.
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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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Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.
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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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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 see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
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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'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.
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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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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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So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.
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