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81 " I was feeling right at home all by myself. The woods can be a bit strange. It takes a long time to feel you belong there and then you never again really belong in town. It's a choice made for you by your brain at a moment you don't notice. "
― Jim Harrison
82 " . . . another year has passed, or so they say, but calenders lie. They're a kind of cosmic business machine like their cousin clocks but break down at inappropriate times. "
― Jim Harrison , In Search of Small Gods
83 " children, those lucky ones to whom clocks are of no consequence but who drift along on the true emotional content of time. "
― Jim Harrison , Brown Dog
84 " I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature. "
85 " The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all. "
― Jim Harrison , The Theory & Practice of Rivers and New Poems
86 " Goddamn but her mind was so exhausted with trying to hold the world together, tired of being the living glue for herself, as if she let go, great pieces of her life would shatter and fall off in mockery of the apocalypse. "
― Jim Harrison , The Woman Lit by Fireflies
87 " No one gets over anything. "
88 " He had been foolish enough to believe that as he recovered over the past few months the world might be recovering with him "
89 " It's up to poets to revive the gods. "
― Jim Harrison , Dead Man's Float
90 " Rumi advised me to keep my spiritup in the branches of a tree and not peekout too far, so I keep mine in the very tallwillows along the irrigation ditch out back "
91 " You can have a pretty good first line but not a strong enough thought to tag along more lines and sometimes in the middle words become bored and make war on one another. Notebooks are full of these fragments, shrapnel of our intention. Life is short on conclusions and that's why it's often a struggle to end a poem. "
― Jim Harrison , The Ancient Minstrel
92 " We survive by learning from pain "
― Jim Harrison , Off to the Side: A Memoir
93 " I've been lucky to spend a life pretty close to the earth up here in the north. I learned in those three days that the earth is so much more than I ever thought it was. It was a gift indeed to see all sides of everything at once. This makes it real hard to say good-bye. My family will be with me just like that old raven falling slowly down through the tree. "
― Jim Harrison , Returning to Earth
94 " I have this sense of being a prematurely old man in a quarrel with himself over the worth of his life, a hopelessly bullshit notion. "
95 " Christ rose so long ago but the airhe rose through hasn't forgottenthe slight red contrail from the wounds. "
96 " It takes a long time for a father to drive the love out of a child. "
97 " What will I die with in my hand?A paintbrush (for houses), an M15a hammer or ax, a book a gavel, a candlesticktiptoeing upstairs.What will I hold or will Ibe caught with this usual thingthat I want to be my heart butit is my brain and I turn it over and over and over. "
― Jim Harrison , Outlyer and Ghazals
98 " Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery. "
― Jim Harrison , The River Swimmer: Novellas
99 " How could all this happen when there was an ocean? "
― Jim Harrison , Dalva
100 " Tristan stood there dazed in the rain and mud with his friend embracing him in sorrow. The scout who was from their tent approached with an officer in tail. They raced to the paddock and quickly saddled three horses. The officer commanded them to stop and they knocked him aside in full gallop northward toward Calais reaching the forest by midnight. They sat still and fireless through the night and then at dawn in the fine sifting snow they crept forward in the snow and wiped it from the faces of the dozen or so dead until Tristan found Samuel, kissed him and bathed his icy face with his own tears: Samuel’s face gray and unmarked but his belly rended from its cage of ribs. Tristan detached the heart with a skinning knife and they rode back to camp where Noel melted down candles and they encased Samuel’s heart in paraffin in a small ammunition canister for burial back in Montana. "
― Jim Harrison , Legends of the Fall