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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
Honor
Life

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I do have trouble with titles.
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The days are stacked against what we think we are.
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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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Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, Que pasa, baby?
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What cannot be said, will get wept.
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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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I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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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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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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When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
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New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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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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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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I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
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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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I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
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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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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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