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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.

William Least Heat-Moon

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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
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Communities
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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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You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.
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The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
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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.
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Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.
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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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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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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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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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At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
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The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
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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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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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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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Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.
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It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.
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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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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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