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A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.
William Least Heat-Moon
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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
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Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.
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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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Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.
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No yesterdays on the road.
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I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
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At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
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Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.
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What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
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I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
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Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.
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To say nothing is out here is incorrect to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth.
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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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...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?
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Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more.
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On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.
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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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The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
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The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
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