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Inspirational Quotes by William Least Heat-Moon
- No yesterdays on the road.
- Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees?
- 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.…
- Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.
- At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
- Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.
- To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
- I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
- Beware thoughts that come in the night.
- The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
- New ways of seeing can disclose new thingsÂ… But turn the question around. Do new things make for new ways of seeing?
- 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…
- The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.
- The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
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