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Jim Harrison quotes about love

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
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

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