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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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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
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Kansas City
Missouri
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Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.
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Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.
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I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.
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Beware thoughts that come in the night.
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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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To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
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The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.
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Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
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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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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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Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.
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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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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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Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
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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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Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.
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New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of the dust mite. But turn the question around: Do new things make for new ways of seeing?
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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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I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
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