Jim Harrison Quotes

• 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

  Ríos

  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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• Algunas personas oyen su propia voz interior con gran claridad y viven de acuerdo con lo que oyen. Esas personas se vuelven locas o se convierten en leyendas.

  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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• 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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• Prefiero dar rienda suelta a todos los amores y decepciones humanas, y arriesgarme a ser cursi, que morirme como un listillo.

  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.

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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.

  Jim Harrison

  Fishing, Horror, Hostage

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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

  Sueño, Personas, Visión

  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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• Los estadounidenses estamos entrenados para pensar a lo grande, hablar a lo grande, actuar a lo grande, amar lo grande, admirar lo grande, pero el misterio esencial está en lo pequeño.

  Jim Harrison

  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.

  Jim Harrison

  En movimiento

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

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• My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.

  Jim Harrison

  Advice, Soul, Trying

  Jim Harrison (2012). “Songs of Unreason”, p.17, Copper Canyon Press

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

  Jim Harrison

  Stories, Pieces, Answers

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• The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.

  Jim Harrison

  Quitting, Reason, Moderates

  Jim Harrison (2007). “Off to the Side: A Memoir”, p.87, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you.

  Jim Harrison

  Encouraging, Hands, Soul

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