"When you're travelling, you are what you are……" — William Least Heat-Moon
"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 the road."
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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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