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Jim Harrison quotes

American Writer December 11, 1937

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His own life suddenly seemed repellently formal. Whom did he know or what did he know and whom did he love? Sitting on the stump under the burden of his father's death and even the mortality inherent in the dying, wildly colored canopy of leaves, he somehow understood that life was only what one did every day.... Nothing was like anything else, including himself, and everything was changing all of the time. He knew he couldn't perceive the change because he was changing too, along with... Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison quote: "Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers,..."
Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs. Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison quote: "The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss..."
The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. Jim Harrison
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
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
(from: Age Sixty-nine)There is this circle I walkthat I have learned to love. I hope one day to be a spiralbut to the birds I'm a circle. 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
Jim Harrison quote: "How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise..."
How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language. Jim Harrison
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
Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians... 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. Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison quote: "Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered."
Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered. Jim Harrison
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
Jim Harrison quote: "I seek the substantial in life."
I seek the substantial in life. 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

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