William Least Heat-Moon Quotes

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• Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.

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  Travel, Adventure, Easy

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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• What is it in man that for a long while lies unknown and unseen only one day to emerge and push him into a new land of the eye, a new region of the mind, a place he has never dreamed of? Maybe it's like the force in spores lying quietly under asphalt until the day they push a soft, bulbous mushroom head right through the pavement. There's nothing you can do to stop it.

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  Lying, Eye, Men

  "Blue Highways". Book by William Least Heat-Moon, 1982.

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• The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.

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  Self, Fool, Hindrance

  William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.233, Hachette UK

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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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  Travel, Carpe Diem, Past

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• Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.

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  Country, Exploration

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• Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.

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  Men, Wander, Insight

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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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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  Dream, Journey, Voyages

  William Least Heat-Moon (1999). “River-Horse: A Voyage Across America”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Change, Blue, Color

  Edgar I. Ailor, William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “BLUE HIGHWAYS Revisited”, p.11, University of Missouri Press

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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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  Errors, Discovery, Joy

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• The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.

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  Garden, Eden, Negative

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• A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.

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  Journey, Long, Matter

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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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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  Travel, Adventure, Two

  William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.59, Hachette UK

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• New ways of seeing can disclose new things… But turn the question around. Do new things make for new ways of seeing?

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  Vision, Way, Turns

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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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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  Sweet, Sea, Perception

  William Least Heat-Moon (1999). “River-Horse: A Voyage Across America”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Miles, Wanted, Knows

  Edgar I. Ailor, William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “BLUE HIGHWAYS Revisited”, p.311, University of Missouri Press

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• Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.

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  Adventure, Ignorance

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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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  Real, Men, Trying

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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• You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.

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  Feel Better, Feel Good, Feelings

  William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.

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• Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.

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  History, Historical, Kind

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• With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.

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  Mean, Men, Land

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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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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  Night, Source, Restriction

  William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.8, Hachette UK

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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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  Stars, Believe, Eye

  William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.201, Hachette UK

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• The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.

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  Motivational, Travel, Journey

  Edgar I. Ailor, William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “BLUE HIGHWAYS Revisited”, p.11, University of Missouri Press

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• At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.

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  Stupid, Sleep, Men

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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