I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world … - Jim Harrison

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Tocqueville talked about "ceaseless agitation," citizens constantly use their institutions, constantly challenging them, constantly insisting upon their rights. It's also individuals taking responsibility for other individuals, recognition that no democracy works if they're weaklings.

Jim Harrison

I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand tidal sweeps rather than the tick-tocks we suffocate within, and that I must reshape myself to fully inhabit the earth rather than dawdle in the sump of my foibles.

Effort, Grand, Life, Stars, Together

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Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits.

Frightened, Government, Guilty, People, Time, Years

Perhaps when we die our names are takenfrom us by a divine magnet and are freeto flutter here and there within the bodies of birds. I'll be a simple crowwho can reach the top of Antelope Butte. (From: Hard Times)

Birds, Divine, Hard Times, Names, Simple, Times

It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you wanted. Perhaps it's standing thigh deep in a river with the water passing at the exact but varying speed of life. You easily recognize this mortality and it dissipates into the landscape.

Dissipates, Fishing, Lakes, River, Sea, Soothing

Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M. L. Smoker)

Fire, Forgiving, House, Live, Wheels, Wherever

My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.

Advice, Inhabit, Soul, Trying