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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
Anonymously
Albeit
Delivered
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Life

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I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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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 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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I can write anywhere.
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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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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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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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I do have trouble with titles.
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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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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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Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
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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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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.
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Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, Que pasa, baby?
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Death steals everything except our stories.
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Zen is the vehicle of reality.
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Nothing on my trip thus far was as I expected which shows you that rather than simply read about the United States you have to log the journey.
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My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
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