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Jim Harrison Quotes

American - Writer | December 11, 1937 - March 26, 2016

You can't be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river.

Beautiful River Unhappy You Middle

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

Live Great People Crazy Legend Own

Your subconscious mind is trying to help you all the time. That's why I keep a journal - not for chatter but for mostly the images that flow into the mind or little ideas. I keep a running journal, and I have all of my life, so it's like your gold mine when you start writing.

Life Time Mind Ideas Gold Start

We pretend that the brain is binary, like a computer. But it's not. It's completely holographic.

Brain Binary Pretend Computer Like

Sometimes, I tell my wife I have to take a car trip and collect new memories - I like to drive around at absolute random for weeks on end through the United States and parts of Canada. Or else I feel trapped, like you feel when your life is completely planned for months in advance, and you think you're not getting enough oxygen.

Life Car Memories Wife Random Drive

We are delightfully trapped by our memories. I can't drink a bottle of Chateauneuf-du-Pape Vieux Telegraphe without revisiting a hotel bistro in Luzerne, Switzerland, where I ate a large bowl of a peppery Basque baby goat stew. A sip and a bite. A bite and sip. Goose bumps come with the divine conjunction of food and wine.

Memories Food Baby Wine Hotel Drink

Either you can do what others want, or you can do what you want to do. That's an easy call.

Easy You Want Others Call Either

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.

Day Earth Angels Would Seven Prefer

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

Success Money Quite Really Blinding

You can be in terrible shape, and if you take a three-hour walk through the forest and along the river, you're simply not the same as when you started out.

Walk River Forest You Out Shape

I do mourn my characters. I wrote an essay once where I was sure that far back in a marsh there was a hummock - a little hill of hardwoods - and an old farm house, where all the heroines in my novels lived together with all my beloved dead dogs. I've discussed this with my therapist, naturally. He says it's okay in fair amounts.

Together Farm Back House Hill Okay

My favorite thing is just walking in the woods. I can do it for days on end without tiring of it.

Woods End Walking I Can Without

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