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Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.

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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Memory
Memories
Lasts
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Men
Measure
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Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
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I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
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You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.
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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 thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
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Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.
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Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.
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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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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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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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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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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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A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.
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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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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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It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.
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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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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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