Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery" ~ Snarky comment of Clive from "The River Swimmer" (pg 47)
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea...
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Ayn Rand
I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.
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Thomas Keller
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions
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Leonardo Da Vinci
What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.
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Deepak Chopra
Anymore, no one's mind is their own.
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Chuck Palahniuk
More Quotes By Jim Harrison
His own life suddenly seemed repellently formal. Whom did he know or what did he know and whom did he love? Sitting on the stump under the burden of his father's death and even the mortality inherent in the dying, wildly colored canopy of leaves,...
Perhaps swimming was dancing under the water, he thought. To swim under lily pads seeing their green slender stalks wavering as you passed, to swim under upraised logs past schools of sunfish and bluegills, to swim through reed beds past wriggling water snakes and miniature...
Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.
Wherever we go we do harm, forgivingourselves as wheels do cement for wearingeach other out. We set this houseon fire, forgetting that we live within.(from "To a Meadowlark, " for M.L. Smoker)
A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
