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Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.

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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
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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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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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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
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I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.
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Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, Que pasa, baby?
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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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I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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Zen is the vehicle of reality.
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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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How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... 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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The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
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We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
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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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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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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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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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