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The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.

William Least Heat-Moon

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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Hindrance
Showing
Biggest
Fool
Learning
Fear
Self

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Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
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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 open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
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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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To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
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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 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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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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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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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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No yesterdays on the road.
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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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Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.
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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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You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.
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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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Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.
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Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder. Rain. The seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all things.
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