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The world that used to nurse us
now keeps shouting inane instructions.
That's why I ran to the woods. — Jim Harrison

It takes a long time for a father to drive the love out of a child. — Jim Harrison

Some nights are three nights long,
some days a mere noon hour, then whistled
back to work, the heart dredging sludge. — Jim Harrison

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

I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance. — Jim Harrison

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works. — Jim Harrison

Imagine if Congress were actually knowledgeable of American history. — Jim Harrison

You don't have to become what you already are, which is a relief. — Jim Harrison

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question. — Jim Harrison

We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within. — Jim Harrison

In a life properly lived, you're a river, — Jim Harrison

How could all this happen when there was an ocean? — Jim Harrison

I wish Barry Lopez would write novels.
from Conversations with Jim Harrison — Jim Harrison

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right. — Jim Harrison

It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs. — Jim Harrison

Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice. — Jim Harrison

The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it. — Jim Harrison

If you live on the railroad tracks the train's going to hit you, Grandpa used to say.
Brown Dog — Jim Harrison

After the passing of irresistible music you must make do with a dripping faucet. — Jim Harrison

One thing that has gone wrong in America is the general acceptance of bad ham — Jim Harrison

I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. — Jim Harrison

He looked around the clearing in recognition that he was lost but didn't mind because he knew he had never been found. — Jim Harrison

No one gets over anything. — Jim Harrison

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

That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it. — Jim Harrison

The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all. — Jim Harrison

You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can't stop it. — Jim Harrison

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now. — Jim Harrison

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast. — Jim Harrison

I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain. — Jim Harrison

No one grows up, they just get tired. Or few indeed. No stopping for dead animals on the turnpike. Too dangerous. — Jim Harrison

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best. — Jim Harrison

The days are stacked against what we think we are. — Jim Harrison

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

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

I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago. — Jim Harrison

Success and money can really be quite blinding. — Jim Harrison

The world gave one so many reasons to be pissed off at it. — Jim Harrison

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there. — Jim Harrison

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

I prefer the skyline
of a shelf of books. — Jim Harrison

Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, Que pasa, baby? — Jim Harrison

Children, those lucky ones to whom clocks are of no consequence but who drift along on the true emotional content of time. — Jim Harrison

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

Zen is the vehicle of reality. — Jim Harrison

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

What cannot be said, will get wept. — Jim Harrison

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be. — Jim Harrison

We are all naturally xenophobic. — Jim Harrison

Death steals everything except our stories. — Jim Harrison

Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger. — Jim Harrison

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose. — Jim Harrison

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was. — Jim Harrison

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

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot. — Jim Harrison

Shakespeare and a very few others qualified but thousands and thousands of others dropped into the void without a sound. — Jim Harrison

Isabel saw all their lives becoming history in units of days and nights so fatally private there was no one left for her to love. — Jim Harrison

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion. — Jim Harrison

I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature. — Jim Harrison

A poet must discover that it's his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed. — Jim Harrison

How could this nasty twerp be so ferally sexual dressed nearly as a boy? — Jim Harrison

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too. — Jim Harrison

Deadly Sins on a long, yellow legal tablet: Pride, Greed, Envy, Lechery, Gluttony, Anger, Laziness. — Jim Harrison

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. — Jim Harrison

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

My heart must open to the cosmos with no langauage unless we invent it moment by moment in order to breathe. — Jim Harrison

However grim the world, we are what we have evolved into. — Jim Harrison

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

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls ... — Jim Harrison

Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch. — Jim Harrison

Nothing so much torments a geezer as the thought of the unlived life. — Jim Harrison

That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park. — Jim Harrison

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

The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit. — Jim Harrison

In 20,000 walks you're bound to learn a little. — Jim Harrison

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. — Jim Harrison

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about.
True North — Jim Harrison

Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too. — Jim Harrison

I can write anywhere. — Jim Harrison

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

When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought — Jim Harrison

With all its eyes the creature world beholds the open, while our eyes are turned in ward, said — Jim Harrison

All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners. — Jim Harrison

No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you. — Jim Harrison

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

The natural world seemed to absorb the poison in me. — Jim Harrison

Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it. — Jim Harrison

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist. — Jim Harrison

I find it impossible not to believe that there's something in Irish blood that favors their power with words. — Jim Harrison

Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints. — Jim Harrison

How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language. — Jim Harrison

I seek the substantial in life. — Jim Harrison

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

Birds are holes in heaven through which a man may pass, — Jim Harrison

Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered. — Jim Harrison

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit. — Jim Harrison

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language. — Jim Harrison

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence. — Jim Harrison

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone
rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs. — Jim Harrison

I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow
by I don't know what. — Jim Harrison