Search for the Genuine, The Quotes

“Bukowski’s strength is in the sheer bulk of his contents, the virulent anecdotal sprawl, the melodic spleen without the fetor of the parlor or the classroom, as if he were writing while straddling a cement wall or sitting on a bar stool, the seat of which was made of thorns.”
― Jim Harrison, Search for the Genuine, The: Nonfiction, 1970-2015

“As the Acoma Pueblo poet Simon Ortiz has said, “There are no truths, only stories.”
― Jim Harrison, Search for the Genuine, The: Nonfiction, 1970-2015

“I excel at taking naps, pouring drinks, lighting my cigarettes, writing too many novels, and, some say, cooking.”
― Jim Harrison, Search for the Genuine, The: Nonfiction, 1970-2015

“It only gradually occurred to me that our wounds are far less unique than our cures.”
― Jim Harrison, Search for the Genuine, The: Nonfiction, 1970-2015

“Ultimately, the perception of reality in a culture is consensual, and so it must be if its peculiar civilization is to function”
― Jim Harrison, Search for the Genuine, The: Nonfiction, 1970-2015

“And it is easy for a young poet to be obsessed with Yeats’s notion that life is a long preparation for something that never occurs.”
― Jim Harrison, Search for the Genuine, The: Nonfiction, 1970-2015