Jim Harrison Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.”
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“I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.”
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“The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.”
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“Death steals everything except our stories.”
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“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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“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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“I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.”
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“Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.”
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“Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.”
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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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“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.”
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“The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.”
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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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“Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.”
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“Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, "Que pasa, baby?”
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“I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.”
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“Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.”
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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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“The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.”
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“Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls...”
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“When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought”
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“I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.”
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“I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered and bloody, though we remain sure nonetheless that we had to make the jump.”
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“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.”
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“I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand tidal sweeps rather than the tick-tocks we suffocate within, and that I must reshape myself to fully inhabit the earth rather than dawdle in the sump of my foibles.”
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“A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.”
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“We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.”
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