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A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.
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
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I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.
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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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To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
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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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...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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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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The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
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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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At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
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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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The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.
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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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Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.
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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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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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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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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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The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
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Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.
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