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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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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
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Kansas City
Missouri
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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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Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
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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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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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A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.
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Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.
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Beware thoughts that come in the night.
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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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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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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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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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At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
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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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Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.
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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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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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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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Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.
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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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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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