Jim Harrison Quotes

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• Success and money can really be quite blinding.
• One of the curious effects of a bad hangover is that you think you're wrong whether you are or not. Not wrong in particulars, but…
• No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you.
• Zen is the vehicle of reality.
• That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.
• Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.
• The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
• How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
• Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.
• I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
• We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.
• I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
• I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
• I do have trouble with titles.
• The wife picked out ceramic tile for floor covering, not realizing that cost was determined by square foot, not square yard like carpet. Thinking the…
• I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.
• 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…
• I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my…
• 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…
• Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

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