Jim Harrison Quotes
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I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
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My favorite thing is just walking in the woods. I can do it for days on end without tiring of it.
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There aren't any real dumb people in my voices. It's always irritated me about Hollywood dialogue - there's so much dialogue that would just bore a Ford mechanic. This is not how people talk.
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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.
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I don't want to go around like some kind of bleeding giant or whatever, or thinking I'm a big deal, because it doesn't help you do your work. I think people like Hemingway got into an awful lot of trouble that way.
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I don't trust anybody that doesn't do good work. I don't give them any credibility. If they can't write, why should I believe anything they have to say?
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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.
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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.
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If all I did was pretend I was Wilderness Jimmy, I would go stale. You know, I fish maybe 100 days of the year and bird-hunt, but if I didn't go to Paris once or twice a year, I'd be crazy.
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After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.
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Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.
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If all I did was answer the correspondence I get, that would be my job.
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I've got a poem that's in a lot of international anthologies called 'After the Anonymous Swedish' and I thought, 'Well, I'm a Swede. I can make up a Swedish poem.' It turned out pretty good.
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I can write anywhere.
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I've always been intemperate in my affection for food.
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I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.
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Riesling? It smells like an intensive care ward.
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Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
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Success and money can really be quite blinding.
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I had a concussion I didn't get over for three years. I think that's why I'm goofy.
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I do have trouble with titles.
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There's something frightening about finding a woman who would take your heart.
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What moves me most is style: the quality of the writing rather than the story being told.
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I grew up in an agricultural family, and I never distanced myself from where the food comes from. I think it's quite natural.