True North Quotes

“I lean against the rail and think there much be such a thing as beautiful anxiety.”
― Jim Harrison, True North

“A mood can be a mud puddle to be jumped over.”
― Jim Harrison, True North

“Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.”
― Jim Harrison, True North

“I also refused the family tradition of Yale and enrolled instead at Michigan State University and then he knew that he had truly lost me, not that he seemed to care.”
― Jim Harrison, True North

“Yesterday I got a call from the outside
world but I said no in thunder.
I was a dog on a short chain
and now there’s no chain.”
― Jim Harrison, True North

“You live in a beautiful place and you don’t act like you know it.”
― Jim Harrison, True North

“It occurred to me that dancing for Cynthia was the same as the pleasure I took in manual labor or fishing. Maybe everyone was better off in a state of physical exhaustion.”
― Jim Harrison, True North

“By early February my world had considerably lightened because I spent all day "seeing" rather than reading or thinking, the latter of which comprised mostly of shortsighted rehearsals of questionable conclusions. This all could easily be allowed to dissipate into the landscape because I was exhausted by the fraudulence of my hard work.”
― Jim Harrison, True North

“The language I wanted from him did not exist in his world.”
― Jim Harrison, True North