Jim Harrison Quotes
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.
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Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.
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I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.
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Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.
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When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.
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It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.
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I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.
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I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.
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Goethe said, 'The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing'; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: 'I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary.' These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.
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I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.
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There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.
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I can't stand the short story form, which, after all, is a magazine form.
