Wolf False Memoir Quotes

“Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.”
― Jim Harrison, Wolf False Memoir

“Driving out of the woods I felt a new and curious calm but doubted that it would last: I had changed my life so often that I finally decided there'd never been anything to change—I could make all the moves I wished to on the surface as if I were playing Chinese checkers but these moves were suspended on a thin layer that failed to stir anything below.”
― Jim Harrison, Wolf

“I bought a ticket with the last of my money at the bus station, telling the agent that there certainly seemed to be a long, long road winding to the land of my dreams.”
― Jim Harrison, Wolf

“Social mobility I suppose but now the upper classes drink cheap bourbon with tap water and a sprig of ragweed.”
― Jim Harrison, Wolf

“Pancakes with a slice of ham on top and three eggs on the slice of ham.”
― Jim Harrison, Wolf

“Flesh is a reasonably good fertilizer, or even better, predator food. A family of coyotes would live off the carcass for a few days. Then the grass and ferns would grow up through the skeleton until the porcupines had gnawed it away for its salt content.”
― Jim Harrison, Wolf False Memoir

“A sonic boom crushes a baby mink's skull. We know that. Isn't it enough?”
― Jim Harrison, Wolf False Memoir

“There's always some smart ass Englishmen coming over here and telling us we're mean and vulgar. I agree. But they showed their hand way back during the Irish Potato Famine as instinctual Nazis.”
― Jim Harrison, Wolf False Memoir

“For years now I've found the Earth haunted. Azoological beasts rage in untraceable configurations. They're called governments. Wounds made that never heal on every acre and covered with the scar tissue of our living existence. The argument at bedrock: I don't want to live on Earth but I don't want to die.”
― Jim Harrison, Wolf False Memoir