Jim Harrison Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Some nights are three nights long,
some days a mere noon hour, then whistled
back to work, the heart dredging sludge.
some days a mere noon hour, then whistled
back to work, the heart dredging sludge.
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
I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.
Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.
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.
Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.
Shakespeare and a very few others qualified but thousands and thousands of others dropped into the void without a sound.
You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can't stop it.
Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.
The idea is to eat well and not die from it - for the simple reason that that would be the end of my eating.
I suppose poor Adams never recovered from the suicide of his wife, though it is arguable whether anyone ever truly recovers from anything.
I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.
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.
Children, those lucky ones to whom clocks are of no consequence but who drift along on the true emotional content of time.
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.
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.
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.
My heart must open to the cosmos with no langauage unless we invent it moment by moment in order to breathe.
That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.
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.
I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
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.
He had been foolish enough to believe that as he recovered over the past few months the world might be recovering with him
I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.
It's very difficult to look at the World
and into your heart at the same time.
In between, a life has passed.
and into your heart at the same time.
In between, a life has passed.
No one grows up, they just get tired. Or few indeed. No stopping for dead animals on the turnpike. Too dangerous.
We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.
Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.
I find it impossible not to believe that there's something in Irish blood that favors their power with words.