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I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
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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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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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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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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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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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Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
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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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At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
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Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.
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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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The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
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Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.
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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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New ways of seeing can disclose new thingsĀ… But turn the question around. Do new things make for new ways of seeing?
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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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Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.
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I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.
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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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To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
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