Brown Dog Quotes

“children, those lucky ones to whom clocks are of no consequence but who drift along on the true emotional content of time.”
― Jim Harrison, Brown Dog

“...people largely envied people who lived a simple life, not that they couldn't do so themselves. It is actually easy when people aren't fond of clutter. You strip the life down to the bare boards underneath, the barest elements of shelter and food”
― Jim Harrison, Brown Dog

“It seemed altogether right to him that they would drive through the small village of Paradise. It would be hard to find someone less demanding of life than Brown Dog and his current position was beyond his most strenuous ambitions.”
― Jim Harrison, Brown Dog

“now that she’s at one with herself and the world she can work my brain over with high horsepower energy.”
― Jim Harrison, Brown Dog

“In the car Marten was rattling on as if he had way too many batteries, so B.D. listened closely to the undercurrent of the radio on a golden oldies station and it was like hearing all of your used-up emotions.”
― Jim Harrison, Brown Dog

“captious,”
― Jim Harrison, Brown Dog

“Oh sons and daughters of man, under the vast and starry night though the stars are invisible, what are you doing here while your histories moment by moment trail off behind you like auto exhaust”
― Jim Harrison, Brown Dog

“I did it with two big ole girls over in Munising once but I didn’t write home about it. One of them fell down in the motel shower and we had a deuce of a time getting her out until I turned on the cold water to sober her up.”
― Jim Harrison, Brown Dog

“his theory that all of the world’s problems were caused by notions of ethnic virtue and that if marriages were limited to interracial lovers there would be peace on earth. There”
― Jim Harrison, Brown Dog