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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.

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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
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Kansas City
Missouri
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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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The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
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A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.
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I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.
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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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I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
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Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees?
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