Jim Harrison Quotes
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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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Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.
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In a life properly lived, you're a river.
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Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.
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Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.
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Success and money can really be quite blinding.
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I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.
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The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.
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I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.
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Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.
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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
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I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.
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The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
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I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.
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What cannot be said, will get wept.
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I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.
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That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.
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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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Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.
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It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.
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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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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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One of the curious effects of a bad hangover is that you think you're wrong whether you are or not. Not wrong in particulars, but wrong in general, wrong about everything.
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Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.
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Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.
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We are all naturally xenophobic.
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I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.
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The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
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The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.
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How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
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