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Jon Krakauer
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 12
Explorer
Journalist
Mountaineer
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Brookline
Massachusetts
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What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?
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Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.
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When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.
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When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines through you.
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The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.
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The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.
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Passion is what makes life interesting, what ignites our soul, drives our curiosity, fuels our love and carries our friendship, stimulates our intellect, and pushes our limit.... A passion for life is contagious and uplifting. Passion cuts both ways.... Those that make you feel on top of the world are equally able to turnit upside down.
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But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.
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Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from the tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end.
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It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty.
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I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.
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Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.
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The sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism - his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.
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If you're not a feminist, you're part of the problem.
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Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their loves. The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that care nothing for hope or longing.
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As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion.
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Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.
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There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.
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It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you.
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Sometimes my need to love hurts-- myself, my family, my cause. Is there a cure? Of course. But I refuse. Refuse to stop loving, to stop caring. To avoid those tears, that pain...To err on the side of passion is human and right and the only way I'll live.
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