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Jim Harrison quotes: It takes a long time for a father to drive the love out of a child. It takes a long time for a father to drive the love out of a child.
Jim Harrison quotes: Some nights are three nights long,some days a mere noon hour, then whistledback to work, the heart dredging sludge. Some nights are three nights long,
some days a mere noon hour, then whistled
back to work, the heart dredging sludge.
Jim Harrison quotes: 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 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
Jim Harrison quotes: I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance. I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
Jim Harrison quotes: Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works. Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
Jim Harrison quotes: Imagine if Congress were actually knowledgeable of American history. Imagine if Congress were actually knowledgeable of American history.
Jim Harrison quotes: You don't have to become what you already are, which is a relief. You don't have to become what you already are, which is a relief.
Jim Harrison quotes: I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question. I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
Jim Harrison quotes: We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within. We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
Jim Harrison quotes: How could all this happen when there was an ocean? How could all this happen when there was an ocean?
Jim Harrison quotes: I wish Barry Lopez would write novels.from Conversations with Jim Harrison I wish Barry Lopez would write novels.
from Conversations with Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison quotes: Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right. Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.
Jim Harrison quotes: It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs. It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.
Jim Harrison quotes: Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice. Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.
Jim Harrison quotes: If you live on the railroad tracks the train's going to hit you, Grandpa used to say. Brown Dog If you live on the railroad tracks the train's going to hit you, Grandpa used to say.
Brown Dog
Jim Harrison quotes: Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be. Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.
Jim Harrison quotes: Death steals everything except our stories. Death steals everything except our stories.
Jim Harrison quotes: I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago. I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.
Jim Harrison quotes: Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger. Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
Jim Harrison quotes: I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain. I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.
Jim Harrison quotes: I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose. I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
Jim Harrison quotes: We are all naturally xenophobic. We are all naturally xenophobic.
Jim Harrison quotes: When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness. When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness.
Jim Harrison quotes: I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was. I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
Jim Harrison quotes: I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching. I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
Jim Harrison quotes: Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot. Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.
Jim Harrison quotes: Shakespeare and a very few others qualified but thousands and thousands of others dropped into the void without a sound. Shakespeare and a very few others qualified but thousands and thousands of others dropped into the void without a sound.
Jim Harrison quotes: What cannot be said, will get wept. What cannot be said, will get wept.
Jim Harrison quotes: No one gets over anything. No one gets over anything.
Jim Harrison quotes: You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can't stop it. You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can't stop it.
Jim Harrison quotes: I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now. I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.
Jim Harrison quotes: Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast. Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
Jim Harrison quotes: One thing that has gone wrong in America is the general acceptance of bad ham One thing that has gone wrong in America is the general acceptance of bad ham
Jim Harrison quotes: I rarely read or buy a book because of a review. I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
Jim Harrison quotes: I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems. I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
Jim Harrison quotes: I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read. I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
Jim Harrison quotes: Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels. Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.
Jim Harrison quotes: Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living. Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
Jim Harrison quotes: The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering. The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.
Jim Harrison quotes: The idea is to eat well and not die from it - for the simple reason that that would be the end of my eating. The idea is to eat well and not die from it - for the simple reason that that would be the end of my eating.
Jim Harrison quotes: Short things are short all over and long things are long all over. Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.
Jim Harrison quotes: New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed. New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
Jim Harrison quotes: My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own. My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
Jim Harrison quotes: I suppose poor Adams never recovered from the suicide of his wife, though it is arguable whether anyone ever truly recovers from anything. I suppose poor Adams never recovered from the suicide of his wife, though it is arguable whether anyone ever truly recovers from anything.
Jim Harrison quotes: I do have trouble with titles. I do have trouble with titles.
Jim Harrison quotes: Zen is the vehicle of reality. Zen is the vehicle of reality.
Jim Harrison quotes: How much l wanted to take scalps, but it was not my kill. - Legends of the Fall How much l wanted to take scalps, but it was not my kill. - Legends of the Fall
Jim Harrison quotes: I used to get criticized for putting food in novels. I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.
Jim Harrison quotes: Success and money can really be quite blinding. Success and money can really be quite blinding.
Jim Harrison quotes: The world gave one so many reasons to be pissed off at it. The world gave one so many reasons to be pissed off at it.
Jim Harrison quotes: I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there. I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.
Jim Harrison quotes: So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money. So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.
Jim Harrison quotes: I prefer the skylineof a shelf of books. I prefer the skyline
of a shelf of books.
Jim Harrison quotes: Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, Que pasa, baby? Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, Que pasa, baby?
Jim Harrison quotes: Children, those lucky ones to whom clocks are of no consequence but who drift along on the true emotional content of time. Children, those lucky ones to whom clocks are of no consequence but who drift along on the true emotional content of time.
Jim Harrison quotes: I don't want to get married or run away. I want my free will. I just want to love someone and not get fucked over. I don't want to get married or run away. I want my free will. I just want to love someone and not get fucked over.
Jim Harrison quotes: Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too. Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
Jim Harrison quotes: Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit. Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.
Jim Harrison quotes: Being a writer requires an intoxication with language. Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.
Jim Harrison quotes: I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence. I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
Jim Harrison quotes: Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alonerivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs. Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone
rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.
Jim Harrison quotes: I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrowby I don't know what. I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow
by I don't know what.
Jim Harrison quotes: 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. 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.
Jim Harrison quotes: The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion. The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.
Jim Harrison quotes: I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature. I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.
Jim Harrison quotes: A poet must discover that it's his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed. A poet must discover that it's his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
Jim Harrison quotes: How could this nasty twerp be so ferally sexual dressed nearly as a boy? How could this nasty twerp be so ferally sexual dressed nearly as a boy?
Jim Harrison quotes: Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered. Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
Jim Harrison quotes: Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.
Jim Harrison quotes: Fifty years ago I learned to jump off the calendar but I kept getting drawn back on for reasons of greed and my imperishable stupidity. Fifty years ago I learned to jump off the calendar but I kept getting drawn back on for reasons of greed and my imperishable stupidity.
Jim Harrison quotes: My heart must open to the cosmos with no langauage unless we invent it moment by moment in order to breathe. My heart must open to the cosmos with no langauage unless we invent it moment by moment in order to breathe.
Jim Harrison quotes: Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls ... Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls ...
Jim Harrison quotes: Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch. Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.
Jim Harrison quotes: That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park. That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.
Jim Harrison quotes: After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do. After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.
Jim Harrison quotes: The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit. The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
Jim Harrison quotes: In 20,000 walks you're bound to learn a little. In 20,000 walks you're bound to learn a little.
Jim Harrison quotes: The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
Jim Harrison quotes: With all its eyes the creature world beholds the open, while our eyes are turned in ward, said With all its eyes the creature world beholds the open, while our eyes are turned in ward, said
Jim Harrison quotes: I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best. I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
Jim Harrison quotes: Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy ... or they become legend. Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy ... or they become legend.
Jim Harrison quotes: Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. True North Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about.
True North
Jim Harrison quotes: He had been foolish enough to believe that as he recovered over the past few months the world might be recovering with him He had been foolish enough to believe that as he recovered over the past few months the world might be recovering with him
Jim Harrison quotes: The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all. The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all.
Jim Harrison quotes: That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it. That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.
Jim Harrison quotes: I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass. I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.
Jim Harrison quotes: I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony.
Jim Harrison quotes: It's very difficult to look at the Worldand into your heart at the same time.In between, a life has passed. It's very difficult to look at the World
and into your heart at the same time.
In between, a life has passed.
Jim Harrison quotes: When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
Jim Harrison quotes: No one grows up, they just get tired. Or few indeed. No stopping for dead animals on the turnpike. Too dangerous. No one grows up, they just get tired. Or few indeed. No stopping for dead animals on the turnpike. Too dangerous.
Jim Harrison quotes: After the passing of irresistible music you must make do with a dripping faucet. After the passing of irresistible music you must make do with a dripping faucet.
Jim Harrison quotes: No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you. No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you.
Jim Harrison quotes: We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small. We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.
Jim Harrison quotes: Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it. Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.
Jim Harrison quotes: I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist. I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
Jim Harrison quotes: I find it impossible not to believe that there's something in Irish blood that favors their power with words. I find it impossible not to believe that there's something in Irish blood that favors their power with words.
Jim Harrison quotes: How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language. How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
Jim Harrison quotes: I seek the substantial in life. I seek the substantial in life.
Jim Harrison quotes: He waved before she could respond, turning and walking out the door where a guard waited. In her throat a sob married a scream and became nothing. He waved before she could respond, turning and walking out the door where a guard waited. In her throat a sob married a scream and became nothing.
Jim Harrison quotes: Birds are holes in heaven through which a man may pass, Birds are holes in heaven through which a man may pass,

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