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41 " Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it. "
― Jim Harrison
42 " I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered and bloody, though we remain sure nonetheless that we had to make the jump. "
― Jim Harrison , Dalva
43 " I feelthe bear’s heartin her footprints. "
― Jim Harrison , Braided Creek
44 " Sometimes all it takes to be happy is a dime on the sidewalk. "
45 " Treasure what you findalready in your pocket, friend. "
46 " The blind man navigatesby stars behind the daylight. "
47 " The butterfly jots a note on the windto remind itself of something. "
48 " Flecks of foamon the fountain’s lipsas it reads aloud fromthe scripture of water. "
49 " Dust toois drawn on wingsto light. "
50 " Stars from horizon to horizon.A whole half universe just to light the path. "
51 " When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought "
― Jim Harrison , The Road Home
52 " Birds are poems I haven't caught yet "
53 " Isabel saw all their lives becoming history in units of days and nights so fatally private there was no one left for her to love. "
― Jim Harrison , Legends of the Fall
54 " All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners. "
55 " My heart must open to the cosmos with no langauage unless we invent it moment by moment in order to breathe. "
― Jim Harrison , In Search of Small Gods
56 " (from: Age Sixty-nine)Often, lately, the night is a cold mawand stars the scattered white teeth of the gods, which spare none of us. At dawn I have birds, clearly divine messengers that I don't understandyet day by day feel the grace of their intentions. "
57 " I seek the substantial in life. "
― Jim Harrison , Just Before Dark
58 " The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense." from The Beast God Forgot to Invent "
59 " One thing that has gone wrong in America is the general acceptance of bad ham "
― Jim Harrison , The English Major
60 " Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered. "