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At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.

William Least Heat-Moon

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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Beginning
Learn
Travel

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I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.
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To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
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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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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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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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You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.
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Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
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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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Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.
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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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Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.
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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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Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.
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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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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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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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Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.
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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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There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.
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