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The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
William Least Heat-Moon
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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Overwhelms
America
Thing
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I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.
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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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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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A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.
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Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
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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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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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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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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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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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...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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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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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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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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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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A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.
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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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Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.
William Least Heat-Moon
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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No yesterdays on the road.
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