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• A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

  Jim Harrison

  Stories, Truth Is, Poet

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• When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness.

  Jim Harrison

  Children, Bird, Wish

  Jim Harrison (2007). “True North”, p.139, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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.

  Jim Harrison

  Fun, War, Literature

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

  Jim Harrison

  Literature, Facts, Gender

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

  Jim Harrison

  Language, Intoxication

  Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.25, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.

  Jim Harrison

  Honor, Life Is

  Jim Harrison (2013). “In Search of Small Gods”, p.24, Copper Canyon Press

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• 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 novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.

  Jim Harrison

  Couple, Book, Writing

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• 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 price was plenty reasonable, she had an extra room of tile ordered for installation. When the bill arrived, it was staggering. She and her husband began a fight that continued all through the construction job. They ended up divorced, but not until she had broken every window.

  Jim Harrison

  Jobs, Husband, Fighting

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• I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

  Jim Harrison

  New York, Cities, Paris

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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.

  Jim Harrison

  Writing, Michigan, States

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• We are all naturally xenophobic.

  Jim Harrison

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• I seek the substantial in life.

  Jim Harrison

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• How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.

  Jim Harrison

  Language, Compromise, Wonderful

  Jim Harrison (2013). “The River Swimmer: Novellas”, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought

  Jim Harrison

  Mind, Stories, Dies

  Jim Harrison (2011). “The Road Home”, p.22, Pan Macmillan

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• I can write anywhere.

  Jim Harrison

  Writing, I Can

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the multifarious diversions of the world and the hurdles of their own vices. A professor had said that what saved writers is that they, like politicians, had the illusion of destiny that allowed them to overcome obstacles no matter how nominal their work.

  Jim Harrison

  Destiny, Trying, Dozen

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• I wonder, when a writer's blocked and doesn't have any resources to pull himself out of it, why doesn't he jump in his car and drive around the U.S.A.? I went last winter for seven thousand miles and it was lovely. Inexpensive, too.

  Jim Harrison

  Winter, Car, Lovely

  Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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.

  Jim Harrison

  Book, Care, Proportion

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• Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.

  Jim Harrison

  Fate, Justice, Hardship

  Jim Harrison (2007). “Off to the Side: A Memoir”, p.18, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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.

  Jim Harrison

  Travel, Reality, Perception

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• I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.

  Jim Harrison

  Teaching, Literature, Ruins

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• Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.

  Jim Harrison

  Long, Literature, Form

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

  Jim Harrison

  Media, Facts, Explosions

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• Success and money can really be quite blinding.

  Jim Harrison

  Congratulations, Literature, Success And Money

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• I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

  Jim Harrison

  Literature, Inevitable, Felt

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