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21 " Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too. "
― Jim Harrison , After Ikkyu & Other Poems
22 " Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs. "
― Jim Harrison , Wolf False Memoir
23 " Being a writer requires an intoxication with language. "
― Jim Harrison
24 " My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own. "
― Jim Harrison , Songs of Unreason
25 " Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right. "
― Jim Harrison , The English Major
26 " Wherever we go we do harm, forgivingourselves as wheels do cement for wearingeach other out. We set this houseon fire, forgetting that we live within.(from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker) "
27 " I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrowby I don't know what. "
― Jim Harrison , In Search of Small Gods
28 " The days are stacked against what we think we are. "
― Jim Harrison , The Road Home
29 " The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit. "
― Jim Harrison , Off to the Side: A Memoir
30 " Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North "
31 " 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. "
32 " It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs. "
33 " The world that used to nurse usnow keeps shouting inane instructions.That's why I ran to the woods. "
34 " If you added it up, without her there was nothing--but with her even the simplest of gestures of walking a bird dog in the desert, or selecting the ingredients for a meal for two rather than one took on an ineffable charm.(from the novella, Revenge) "
― Jim Harrison , Legends of the Fall
35 " His own life suddenly seemed repellently formal. Whom did he know or what did he know and whom did he love? Sitting on the stump under the burden of his father's death and even the mortality inherent in the dying, wildly colored canopy of leaves, he somehow understood that life was only what one did every day.... Nothing was like anything else, including himself, and everything was changing all of the time. He knew he couldn't perceive the change because he was changing too, along with everything else.(from the novella, The Man Who Gave Up His Name) "
36 " We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within. "
― Jim Harrison , Saving Daylight
37 " It's very difficult to look at the Worldand into your heart at the same time.In between, a life has passed. "
38 " How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language. "
― Jim Harrison , The River Swimmer: Novellas
39 " 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 , Julip
40 " Everyday I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. "