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I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.

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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The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
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At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
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I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
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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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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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Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.
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