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I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.

Jim Harrison

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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
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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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We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.
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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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How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
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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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I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
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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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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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Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
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Death steals everything except our stories.
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