Jim Harrison quotes

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)
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. View quote
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The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. View quote
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Death steals everything except our stories. View quote
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Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels. View quote
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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. View quote
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Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast. View quote
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Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch. View quote
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Being a writer requires an intoxication with language. View quote
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It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs. View quote
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The idea is to eat well and not die from it - for the simple reason that that would be the end of your eating. (Jim Harrison)
My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own. View quote
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Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs. View quote
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Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too. View quote
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The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods. View quote
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Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. View quote
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Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North. View quote
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The days are stacked against what we think we are. View quote
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Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, "Que pasa, baby? View quote
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Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right. View quote
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I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what. (Jim Harrison)
We are all naturally xenophobic. View quote
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I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question. View quote
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I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose. View quote
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I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago. View quote
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Jim Harrison

Jim Harrison - Image
Photo: Annie Gomis, CC BY-SA 4.0
Occupation: American Writer
Born: December 11, 1937
Died: March 26, 2016
Quotes count: 58

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