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You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.
William Least Heat-Moon
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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
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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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New ways of seeing can disclose new thingsĀ But turn the question around. Do new things make for new ways of seeing?
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A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.
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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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Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.
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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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I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
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I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source I have a life.
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Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.
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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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Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.
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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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The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.
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