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“Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.”
-- Jim Harrison

#Walking
“I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.”
-- Jim Harrison

#Tomorrow
“What cannot be said, will get wept.”
-- Jim Harrison

#Said
“The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.”
-- Jim Harrison

#Civilization #Nonsense #Danger
“Death steals everything except our stories.”
-- Jim Harrison

#Stories #Stealing
“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

#Disappointment #Giving #Risk
“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

#Wine #Simple #Race
“I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.”
-- Jim Harrison

#Facts #Gender #Significant
“Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.”
-- Jim Harrison

#Dog #Rivers #Mountain
“In a life properly lived, you’re a river,”
-- Jim Harrison

#Rivers
“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.”
-- Jim Harrison

#Dream #People #Vision
“The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.”
-- Jim Harrison

#Inspirational #Travel #Doe
“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

#Crazy #Voice #People
“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.”
-- Jim Harrison

#Wine #Giving #Advice
“Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.”
-- Jim Harrison

#Slumps
“Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.”
-- Jim Harrison

#Lunch #Answers #Sometimes
“Zen is the vehicle of reality.”
-- Jim Harrison

#Reality #Vehicle
“Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, "Que pasa, baby?”
-- Jim Harrison

#Baby #Track #Hunters
“I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.”
-- Jim Harrison

#Inevitable
“Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.”
-- Jim Harrison

#Language #Intoxication
“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.”
-- Jim Harrison

#Love #Disappointment #Tired
“The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.”
-- Jim Harrison

#Stories #Pieces #Answers
“Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls...”
-- Jim Harrison

#Fishing #Tennis #Balls
“When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought”
-- Jim Harrison

#Mind #Stories
“I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.”
-- Jim Harrison

#Teaching #Brain #Brain Tumor
“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.”
-- Jim Harrison

#Jumping #Holes #Bloody
“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

#Journey #United States #Shows
“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.”
-- Jim Harrison

#Stars #Effort #Together
“A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.”
-- Jim Harrison

#Stories #Truth Is #Poet
“We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.”
-- Jim Harrison

#Fire #House #Forget

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