"Beware thoughts that come in the night. They……" — William Least Heat-Moon
"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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40 Quotes by William Least Heat-Moon
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To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light,…
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No yesterdays on the road.
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Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect…
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Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
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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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I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known…
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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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Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.
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At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
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Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.
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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.…
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To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
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More Askew Quotes
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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew…
— Michel de Montaigne
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I have a similar issue with people who hire me as I do with women. 'You have to have a…
— Jason Segel
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There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African underTutustanding is far more restorative - not…
— Desmond Tutu
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Hobgoblins know the proper way to dance: Arms akimbo, loopy legs askew, Leaping into darkness with delight, Lusting for the…
— Nick Gordon
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I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those…
— Keith Carter
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I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie…
— A. A. Gill
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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair;…
— Andre Gide
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One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent…
— Sam Walter Foss
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Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals…
— Willard Fiske
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Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing,…
— Criss Jami
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You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the…
— Sylvia Plath
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