"All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners."

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Source : Jim Harrison (2007). “The Road Home”, p.333, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Jim Harrison

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“When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society.”
“The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.”
“My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think you always have to keep your eye open and take advantage of anything that may come your way.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-threeâ€”and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever?”
“I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special.”
“Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.”
“It is painful to be consciously of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness. I am not afraid to live on and on, if only I do not have to remember too much. A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.”

Source : Mary Antin (1912). “The Promised Land”, Houghton Mifflin company

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