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• The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

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  Funny, Happiness, Wine

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• Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

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  Dog, Rivers, Mountain

  Jim Harrison (2016). “Wolf”, p.108, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

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  Inspirational, Travel, Lakes

  Jim Harrison (2007). “The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand”, p.91, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

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  Civilization, Nonsense, Danger

  Jim Harrison (2007). “The Beast God Forgot to Invent”, p.3, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In a life properly lived, you're a river.

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  Rivers

  Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.65, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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 legends.

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  Crazy, Fall, Voice

  "Fictional character: One Stab". "Legends of the Fall", www.imdb.com. December 23, 1994.

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• I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand tidal sweeps rather than the tick-tocks we suffocate within, and that I must reshape myself to fully inhabit the earth rather than dawdle in the sump of my foibles.

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  Stars, Effort, Together

  Jim Harrison (2008). “Julip: A Novel”, p.228, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

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  Fishing, Horror, Hostage

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• Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.

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  Walking, Wanderers

  Jim Harrison (2007). “Off to the Side: A Memoir”, p.6, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

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  Disappointment, Giving, Risk

  Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Death steals everything except our stories.

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  Stories, Stealing

  Jim Harrison (2013). “In Search of Small Gods”, p.11, Copper Canyon Press

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• I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a
  full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy
  ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.

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  Loneliness, Passion, Being Alone

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• Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.

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  Dream, People, Vision

  Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.190, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.

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  Tomorrow, Knows

  Jim Harrison (2013). “In Search of Small Gods”, p.13, Copper Canyon Press

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• We Are All One. When we allow ourselves to become aware of this statement in its purest form, we open the doors to reveal the oneness of being. Using the process of conscious evolution we begin to recognise our true underlying identity, for once we have glimpsed the existence of this realm, we then begin to reveal what it is . . . . our true natural state.

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  Men, Doors, Oneness

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• The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.

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  Nurse, World, Woods

  Jim Harrison (2012). “Songs of Unreason”, p.7, Copper Canyon Press

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• This infantile sense of order tended to infect my life at large. Up at 5:30 a.m., coffee, oatmeal, perhaps sausage (homemade), and fresh eggs giving one of the yolks to Lola. Listening to NPR and grieving more recently over the absence of Bob Edwards who was the sound of morning as surely as birds. Reading a paragraph or two of Emerson or Loren Eiseley to raise the level of my thinking. Going out to feed the cattle if it was during our six months of bad weather.

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  Morning, Reading, Coffee

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• Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

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  Soul, Language, Speak

  Jim Harrison (2016). “Just Before Dark”, p.244, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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 wrong in general, wrong about everything.

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  Hangover, Thinking, Alcohol

  Jim Harrison (2016). “Sundog”, p.135, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.

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  Dog, Freedom, Chains

  Jim Harrison, “Barking”

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• We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.

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  Thinking, Essentials, Mystery

  Jim Harrison (2007). “Off to the Side: A Memoir”, p.21, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it.

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  Moving

  Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.65, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.

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  Fire, House, Forget

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• The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.

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  Stories, Pieces, Answers

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• The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.

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  Wine, Giving, Advice

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