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Jim Harrison quotes about time

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
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
I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself. Jim Harrison
. . . another year has passed, or so they say, but calenders lie. They're a kind of cosmic business machine like their cousin clocks but break down at inappropriate times. Jim Harrison
Perhaps when we die our names are takenfrom us by a divine magnet and are freeto flutter here and there within the bodies of birds. I'll be a simple crowwho can reach the top of Antelope Butte.(From: Hard Times) Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison quote: "It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times..."
It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs. Jim Harrison
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
Jim Harrison quote: "Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have..."
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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