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Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it. ~ Jim Harrison
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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about.
True North ~ Jim Harrison
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In fact he was as
lovesick as a high schooler of an especially sensitive sort who wonders if he dare share a poem with his
beloved or whether she will laugh at him. He does read her the poem and her feminine capacity for
romanticism for a moment approaches his own and they are suffused in a love trance, a state that so
ineluctably peels back the senses making them fresh again whatever ages the lovers might be. ~ Jim Harrison
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If you live on the railroad tracks the train's going to hit you, Grandpa used to say.
Brown Dog ~ Jim Harrison
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I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there. ~ Jim Harrison
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Imagine if Congress were actually knowledgeable of American history. ~ Jim Harrison
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I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best. ~ Jim Harrison
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Death steals everything except our stories. ~ Jim Harrison
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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review. ~ Jim Harrison
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I find it impossible not to believe that there's something in Irish blood that favors their power with words. ~ Jim Harrison
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But then that's an appropriate response to death?' I interrupted.
'There isn't a singular response. You keep on truckin', as that cartoonist Crumb said. You're probably having a thousand responses a day because your brain simply can't stop trying to comprehend what has happened to you. It's the largest question mark we deal with in life and no responses will make it go away. We envy the devout who experience the pain but have a surefire explanation. ~ Jim Harrison
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Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery"
~ Snarky comment of Clive from "The River Swimmer" (pg 47) ~ Jim Harrison
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Success and money can really be quite blinding. ~ Jim Harrison
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Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints. ~ Jim Harrison
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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. ~ Jim Harrison
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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. ~ Jim Harrison
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[ ... ] I finally understood that death and numbers don't cohere. Everyone is 'one.' An accident report might say that nine died, four of them in their teens, but each death was 'one.' Each of six million Jews was 'one.' With death it is a series of 'ones. ~ Jim Harrison
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We think of life as solid and are haunted when time tells us it is a fluid. Old Heraclitus couldn't have stepped in the same river once, let alone twice. ~ Jim Harrison
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The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. ~ Jim Harrison
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Now that she's at one with herself and the world she can work my brain over with high horsepower energy. ~ Jim Harrison
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We are all naturally xenophobic. ~ Jim Harrison
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Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. ~ Jim Harrison
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Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone
rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs. ~ Jim Harrison
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After the passing of irresistible music you must make do with a dripping faucet. ~ Jim Harrison
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What will I die with in my hand?
A paintbrush (for houses), an M15
a hammer or ax, a book a gavel,
a candlestick
tiptoeing upstairs.
What will I hold or will I
be caught with this usual thing
that I want to be my heart but
it is my brain and I turn it
over and over and over. ~ Jim Harrison
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I can write anywhere. ~ Jim Harrison
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How could this nasty twerp be so ferally sexual dressed nearly as a boy? ~ Jim Harrison
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Birds are poems I haven't caught yet ~ Jim Harrison
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You don't have to become what you already are, which is a relief. ~ Jim Harrison
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No one gets over anything. ~ Jim Harrison
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I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question. ~ Jim Harrison
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In 20,000 walks you're bound to learn a little. ~ Jim Harrison
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I prefer the skyline
of a shelf of books. ~ Jim Harrison
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As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the multifarious diversions of the world and the hurdles of their own vices. A professor had said that what saved writers is that they, like politicians, had the illusion of destiny that allowed them to overcome obstacles no matter how nominal their work. ~ Jim Harrison
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He did recall that the summer after graduating from college before he joined the state police he had read Shakespeare. It was the pure language that stupefied him. He would be in a diner reading A Midsummer Night's Dream and his acquaintances were confident he was studying for some test. The test turned out to be the nature of his mind. Shakespeare seemed even truer than history. Literature was against the abyss while history wallowed in it. ~ Jim Harrison
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I seek the substantial in life. ~ Jim Harrison
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Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels. ~ Jim Harrison
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I hope to define my life, whatever is left, by migrations, south and north with the birds and far from the metallic fever of clocks, the self staring at the clock saying, "I must do this." I can't tell the time on the tongue of the river in the cool morning air, the smell of the ferment of greenery, the dust off the canyon's rock walls, the swallows swooping above the scent of raw water. ~ Jim Harrison
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After dinner the Texan invited Cochran to accompany him to a whorehouse but he declined saying he'd feed, walk and water the horse.
'Strikes me you had a big day and some poontang might ease your mind.'
'Nope. Killed a man I hated today and I don't want to mix my pleasures. I want to lay in bed and think how good it felt.'
The Texan nodded and lit a cigar. He was no man's fool. ~ Jim Harrison
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Christ rose so long ago but the air
he rose through hasn't forgotten
the slight red contrail from the wounds. ~ Jim Harrison
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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
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What cannot be said, will get wept. ~ Jim Harrison
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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
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My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own. ~ Jim Harrison
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A movement in the vines startled her and an opossum scurried out, looked at Clare and flopped over in fake death. She had seen this twice before in her garden back home and it was difficult not to draw certain parallels, amusing ones, though if you played dead long enough the act of coming back to life was questionable. ~ Jim Harrison
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However grim the world, we are what we have evolved into. ~ Jim Harrison
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I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now. ~ Jim Harrison
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Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered. ~ Jim Harrison
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his theory that all of the world's problems were caused by notions of ethnic virtue and that if marriages were limited to interracial lovers there would be peace on earth. There ~ Jim Harrison
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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
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How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language. ~ Jim Harrison
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Goddamn but her mind was so exhausted with trying to hold the world together, tired of being the living glue for herself, as if she let go, great pieces of her life would shatter and fall off in mockery of the apocalypse. ~ Jim Harrison
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I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ~ Jim Harrison
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Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too. ~ Jim Harrison
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There are no true monsters, only some people [ ... ] who with regularity acted like a monster. It's still episodic. [ ... ] It never works when you leave out even a small part of the picture. ~ Jim Harrison
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A mood can be a mud puddle to be jumped over. ~ Jim Harrison
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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.
~ Jim Harrison
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Much earlier in this century an Austrian journalist, Karl Kraus, pointed out that if you actually perceived the true reality behind the news you would run, screaming, into the streets. I have run screaming into the streets dozens of times but have always managed to return home in time for dinner-and usually an hour early so that I can help in the preparation. ~ Jim Harrison
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Earlier, when I made my coffee (after releasing my grateful geese), I sat at the big Northridge desk and got out the Edward Curtis portfolio for breakfast reading. When I untied the first folio there was a note - "Dalva & Ruth. Wash your hands. I love you. Grandpa." A simple old note, brittle with age, but I was momentarily overcome with loneliness for her; at the same time, though, I knew in a deeper sense that I was totally out of the running. In the long and short of it, love is a more difficult subject than sex. Or history. I ~ Jim Harrison
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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist. ~ Jim Harrison
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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
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There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why. ~ Jim Harrison
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The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all. ~ Jim Harrison
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Short things are short all over and long things are long all over. ~ Jim Harrison
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It takes a long time for a father to drive the love out of a child. ~ Jim Harrison
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At heart he was a secret Quaker and football was pure violence. The coach was always telling him to "hit them harder." The coach wanted him to put opposing players "out of commission." He kept it to himself but wondered what the point of the "game" was if your intention was to hurt people badly. ~ Jim Harrison
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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
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I've been lucky to spend a life pretty close to the earth up here in the north. I learned in those three days that the earth is so much more than I ever thought it was. It was a gift indeed to see all sides of everything at once. This makes it real hard to say good-bye. My family will be with me just like that old raven falling slowly down through the tree. ~ Jim Harrison
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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. ~ Jim Harrison
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I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read. ~ Jim Harrison
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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
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It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you wanted. Perhaps it's standing thigh deep in a river with the water passing at the exact but varying speed of life. You easily recognize this mortality and it dissipates into the landscape. ~ Jim Harrison
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The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it. ~ Jim Harrison
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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
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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence. ~ Jim Harrison
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Sitting there on the deck during intermittent periods of dozing I thought that it's really hard on a soul to admit how much of life we have spent being full of shit. ~ Jim Harrison
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How could all this happen when there was an ocean? ~ Jim Harrison
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Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice. ~ Jim Harrison
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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. ~ Jim Harrison
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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
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We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within. ~ Jim Harrison
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I walk to think and not to think. When walking I remember things that are important to me.
I walk to forget. I have yet to set out on a walk in low spirits and return feeling worse than I did when I left the door. A change occurs between the fate and the porch, walking lifts the weight off the heart. Or as the writer Jim Harrison says, When you're out of sorts, walk a hundred miles. ~ Susan Minot
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Shakespeare and a very few others qualified but thousands and thousands of others dropped into the void without a sound. ~ Jim Harrison
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Keep getting asked by letter and on the street by Jane and John Does dressed in spandex how they can prepare simple "gourmet" dinners in ten minutes so as to prolong, presumably, their cross-training and spritzer-drinking binges, massage and colonic appointments, drumming and marriage-counseling sessions, and tarot-card swap clubs. An easy answer here. Scoop ample quantities of Skippy on two paper plates. Handcuff each other and then slam your faces down into the plates with gusto. Good for the gluteus maximus. And it will bring you together at the sink, plus you won't have to violate your space by answering the phone. Back to the ~ Jim Harrison
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At my cabin I got so jumpy after saving my young heroine from three older men who resembled my friends that I flipped and conceived of a highly illegal meal, a thirty-pound elephant's asshole shipped FedEx from Zimbabwe, cooked for three days in a rock-lined fire hole in a bleached gunnysack soaked in 151 rum, to which is added thirteen pounds of garlic and an equal amount of fresh hot chiles. Serve with plain white rice. A Bordeaux is a possibility. ~ Jim Harrison
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The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit. ~ Jim Harrison
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When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought ~ Jim Harrison
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The fatherless son had two new moons in his forty days in the wilderness, the second one telling him it was time to become God and enter the beast of history. ~ Jim Harrison
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I lean against the rail and think there much be such a thing as beautiful anxiety. ~ Jim Harrison
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To the white people, among whom I helplessly number myself, life is a very long and high set of stairs, but to my mother life was a river, a slow and stately wind across the sky, an endless sea of grass. ~ Jim Harrison
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In Ecuador the Indian mate was too poor to buy Polaroid glasses but he saw the caudal fins of marlin long before my perfect eyes noticed anything. Benny played pool as if the cue stick emerged from his body. Not my alcohol & geometry. She was an asshole and I couldn't have loved her at gunpoint. ~ Jim Harrison
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The days are stacked against what we think we are. ~ Jim Harrison
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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger. ~ Jim Harrison
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It is now 55 years since my last book report, which is a long time to live with a guilty conscience. So here it is: In the spring of 1956 I wrote a highly favorable review of the Bible without reading a word of it, and it was the last A I ever got in English. Why it has taken so long to come clean I'm not sure, except I have always been extremely sensitive about my academic reputation. ~ Pete Dexter
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The Statue of Liberty, that frequently malevolent bitch, has an enormous tumor in her gut that has spread to her brain and eyes. With regard to the Native Americans she has Alzheimer's or mad cow disease and can't remember her past, and her blind eyes can't see the terrifying plight of most of the Indian tribes. Meanwhile she blows China and stomps Cuba to death, choosing to forget the Native cultures she has already destroyed. ~ Jim Harrison
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I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a
full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy
ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness. ~ Jim Harrison
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I hadn't noticed the green of summer enough and now the colors were gray and white and black. ~ Jim Harrison
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Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be. ~ Jim Harrison
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One of the curious effects of a bad hangover is that you think you're wrong whether you are or not. Not wrong in particulars, but wrong in general, wrong about everything. ~ Jim Harrison
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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 ~ Jim Harrison
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