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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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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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Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
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I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
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Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.
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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
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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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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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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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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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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 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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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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Death steals everything except our stories.
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Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
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I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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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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