Jim Harrison Quotes

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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

  Jim Harrison

  Funny, Happiness, Wine

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

  Jim Harrison

  Rivers

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

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

  Jim Harrison

  Civilization, Nonsense, Danger

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

  Jim Harrison

  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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• 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.

  Jim Harrison

  Crazy, Fall, Voice

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

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

  Jim Harrison

  Dog, Rivers, Mountain

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

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

  Jim Harrison

  Walking, Wanderers

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

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

  Jim Harrison

  Tomorrow, Knows

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

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

  Jim Harrison

  Fishing, Horror, Hostage

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• Death steals everything except our stories.

  Jim Harrison

  Stories, Stealing

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

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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.

  Jim Harrison

  Disappointment, Giving, Risk

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

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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.

  Jim Harrison

  Stars, Effort, Together

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

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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.

  Jim Harrison

  Dream, People, Vision

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

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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.

  Jim Harrison

  Loneliness, Passion, Being Alone

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

  Jim Harrison

  Nurse, World, Woods

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

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

  Jim Harrison

  Soul, Language, Speak

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

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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.

  Jim Harrison

  Men, Doors, Oneness

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

  Jim Harrison

  Fire, House, Forget

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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.

  Jim Harrison

  Thinking, Essentials, Mystery

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

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• I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.

  Jim Harrison

  Self, Understanding, Losing

  Jim Harrison (2007). “Off to the Side: A Memoir”, p.127, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

  Jim Harrison

  Dog, Freedom, Chains

  Jim Harrison, “Barking”

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

  Jim Harrison

  Moving

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

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• Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.

  Jim Harrison

  Lunch, Answers, Sometimes

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• It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you wanted. Perhaps it's standing thigh deep in a river with the water passing at the exact but varying speed of life. You easily recognize this mortality and it dissipates into the landscape.

  Jim Harrison

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Jim Harrison (2007). “True North”, p.157, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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.

  Jim Harrison

  Wine, Giving, Advice

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