Jim Harrison - Love Quotes

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

Jim Harrison

Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.

Jim Harrison

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

Jim Harrison

I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony.... A lot of good fiction is sentimental.... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up.... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

Jim Harrison

How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.

Jim Harrison