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No yesterdays on the road.

William Least Heat-Moon

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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Yesterdays
Bikers
Yesterday
Road

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Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
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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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Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.
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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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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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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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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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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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...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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I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
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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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To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
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The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
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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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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 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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One of the sweet and expectable aspects of life afloat is the perpetual present moment one lives in and a perception that time is nothing more than the current, an eternal flowing back to the sea.
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A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.
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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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The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
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