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Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
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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Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.
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I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
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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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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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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 Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has the, continual threat for life it's got the thread of Indians it's got disease. It has daily risk where these men may go under the water. It's got the fight with the elements. It's got the el the role of the unknown continually threatening them.
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A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.
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Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
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Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.
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Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.
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Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.
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I've read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn't believe it, what with the sky white with starlight. I saw a million stars with one eye and two million with both.
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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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No yesterdays on the road.
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At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
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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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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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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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