"The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth"
"The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods."
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Source: Jim Harrison (2012). “Songs of Unreason”, p.7, Copper Canyon Press
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