276 Quotes by Jim Harrison

‎I wish Barry Lopez would write novels.from "Conversations with Jim Harrison

There is nothing so immediately rewarded in American life, in the arts or anything else, as a shrill and limited consciousness.

There's always some smart ass Englishmen coming over here and telling us we're mean and vulgar. I agree. But they showed their hand way back during the Irish Potato Famine as instinctual Nazis.

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

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.

I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.

I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.