276 Quotes by Jim Harrison

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.

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.

We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual pace of life. The speed of the passing images becomes the speed the aspire to and they seem to develop an impatience and boredom with anything else.

We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.

Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.

Perhaps when we die our names are takenfrom us by a divine magnet and are freeto flutter here and there within the bodies of birds.I'll be a simple crowwho can reach the top of Antelope Butte.(From: Hard Times)