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William Least Heat Moon Inspirational Quotes (48)

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There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.
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The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.
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You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.
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New ways of seeing can disclose new things… But turn the question around. Do new things make for new ways of seeing?
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Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.
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Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in.
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Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.
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Spirit can go anywhere. In fact, it has to go places so it can change and emerge like in the migrations. That's the whole idea.
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With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.
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Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
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I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.
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Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited.
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I've read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn't believe it, what with the sky white with starlight. I saw a million stars with one eye and two million with both.
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The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
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No yesterdays on the road.
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Beware thoughts that come in the night.
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Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
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The Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has the, continual threat for life it's got the thread of Indians it's got disease. It has daily risk where these men may go under the water. It's got the fight with the elements. It's got the el the role of the unknown continually threatening them.
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For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.
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Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.
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New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of the dust mite. But turn the question around: Do new things make for new ways of seeing?
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The four horsemen of the prairie are tornado, locust, drought, and fire, and the greatest of these is fire, a rider with two faces because for everything taken, it makes a return in equal measure.
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To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
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At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
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