"The thing that overwhelms me when I go……" — William Least Heat-Moon
"The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America."
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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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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
— Arthur Ashe
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful…
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as…
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks…
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself…
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
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