Beckoning Quote by William Least Heat-Moon

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

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I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.

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Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.

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I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately…

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

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Beware thoughts that come in the night.

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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…

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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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New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of…

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When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on…

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“road so crooked it could run for the legislature,”

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

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

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