Jim Harrison Quotes
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Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.
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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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I'm a time person. It's the one discipline I manage.
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The big curse of America, to me, is skinless, boneless chicken breasts. They're banal and relatively flavorless. The rest of the world's trying to get some fat to eat, and we're trying to ban it from our diet.
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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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Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.
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I think about the sentence a long time, and then I write it. I don't revise it once it's set down.
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I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.
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Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
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I think the trouble with artists or chefs who whine about criticism is that if you love the good reviews, you have to at least read the bad ones.
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We are delightfully trapped by our memories. I can't drink a bottle of Chateauneuf-du-Pape Vieux Telegraphe without revisiting a hotel bistro in Luzerne, Switzerland, where I ate a large bowl of a peppery Basque baby goat stew. A sip and a bite. A bite and sip. Goose bumps come with the divine conjunction of food and wine.
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I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
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Other than fishing and a little bird-hunting, all I do is write.
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I can write anywhere.
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I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
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I like grit. I like love and death. I'm tired of irony.
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I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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I do have trouble with titles.
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You have to temporarily be the character in order to understand him. It's sort of what they used to call 'shape-shifting.'
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Sometimes, discomfort is very uncomfortable. Anybody can get occasionally tired of it, and then it can change fast, where it's comfort that disturbs you.
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I used to have this illusion that time and remote areas prepare you for the world. Our moms used to think that kind of thing. Well, it doesn't prepare you for the world at all!
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Either you can do what others want, or you can do what you want to do. That's an easy call.
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I'm outdoors a lot, so I get dark. Guess who gets stopped? I've been pulled over, and they ask, 'Where are you from?' I say, 'Montana.' They say, 'Are you sure? And I say, 'I'm reasonably sure I'm from Montana, but you know, this is a dream life.' You start on this shtick with them and it's fun.
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We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.