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William Least Heat-Moon

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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Exploration
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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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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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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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Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited.
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The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
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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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I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
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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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You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.
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To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
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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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Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
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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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Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.
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At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
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The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
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Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in.
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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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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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