It was today — rather yesterday I think — that he told me it was important not to accept life as a brutal approximation. - Jim Harrison

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the natural world seemed to absorb the poison in me.

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Dalva: A Novel · December 20, 2013 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Rumi advised me to keep my spirit

up in the branches of a tree and not peek

out too far, so I keep mine in the very tall

willows along the irrigation ditch out back

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Dead Man's Float · January 5, 2016 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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He looked around the clearing in recognition that he was lost but didn’t mind because he knew he had never been found.

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Legends of the Fall · May 1, 1980 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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