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You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.

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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
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Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.
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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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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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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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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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No yesterdays on the road.
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Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.
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Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
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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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