Frases de Jim Harrison

James 'Jim' Harrison [1] fue un escritor estadounidense. Escribió poesía, novelas de ficción, ensayo, entrevistas e incluso libros de cocina. Wikipedia

✵ 11. diciembre 1937 – 26. marzo 2016

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Jim Harrison: Frases en inglés

“I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony.”

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“The days are stacked against what we think we are.”

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Fuente: The Road Home

“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.”

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“Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, "Que pasa, baby?”

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

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Fuente: The Beast God Forgot to Invent

“Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.”

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Fuente: After Ikkyu & Other Poems

“Death steals everything except our stories.”

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Fuente: In Search of Small Gods

“Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.”

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Fuente: Warlock

“Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.”

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Fuente: Wolf False Memoir

“My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.”

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Fuente: Songs of Unreason

“Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.”

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

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Fuente: The English Major

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

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“Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving
ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing
each other out. We set this house
on fire, forgetting that we live within.

(from "To a Meadowlark," for M. L. Smoker)”

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“It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.”

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Fuente: The Road Home

“I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow
by I don't know what.”

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Fuente: In Search of Small Gods

“The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.”

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Fuente: Off to the Side: A Memoir

“The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.”

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“If you added it up, without her there was nothing--but with her even the simplest of gestures of walking a bird dog in the desert, or selecting the ingredients for a meal for two rather than one took on an ineffable charm.

(from the novella,)”

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Fuente: Legends of the Fall

“The world that used to nurse us
now keeps shouting inane instructions.
That's why I ran to the woods.”

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Fuente: Songs of Unreason