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Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.
William Least Heat-Moon
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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
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Kansas City
Missouri
Insight
Gets
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Men
Wander
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Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
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The Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has the, continual threat for life it's got the thread of Indians it's got disease. It has daily risk where these men may go under the water. It's got the fight with the elements. It's got the el the role of the unknown continually threatening them.
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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 like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.
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Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.
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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 say nothing is out here is incorrect to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth.
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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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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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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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I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
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The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
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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 biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.
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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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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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Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.
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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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