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When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought

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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.
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I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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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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Death steals everything except our stories.
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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
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Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
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Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.
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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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New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
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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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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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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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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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Zen is the vehicle of reality.
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My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
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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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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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