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James Harrison , poeta, scrittore e saggista statunitense.

✵ 11. Dicembre 1937 – 26. Marzo 2016
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Jim Harrison Frasi e Citazioni

“Ho osservato attentamente che le persone che guardano molta TV non sembrano più in grado di adattarsi al ritmo attuale della vita. La velocità delle immagini che scorrono diventa la velocità alla quale esse aspirano e sembrano sviluppare un’impazienza e una noia verso qualsiasi altra cosa.”

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Jim Harrison: Frasi in inglese

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

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Origine: The Beast God Forgot to Invent

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

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Origine: After Ikkyu & Other Poems

“Death steals everything except our stories.”

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Origine: In Search of Small Gods

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

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Origine: Wolf False Memoir

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

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Origine: Songs of Unreason

“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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Origine: The English Major

“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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Origine: The Road Home

“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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Origine: 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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Origine: Songs of Unreason

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