William Least Heat-Moon Quotes

• Ten cuidado al ir en busca de aventuras: es ridículamente fácil encontrarlas.

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  Travel, Adventure, Easy

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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• A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  Viaje, Largo, Materia

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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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 what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  Miles, Wanted, Knows

  Edgar I. Ailor, William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “BLUE HIGHWAYS Revisited”, p.311, University of Missouri Press

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• Lo que has hecho se convierte en juez de lo que vas a hacer, sobre todo en la mente de los demás. Cuando viajas, eres lo que eres en ese momento. La gente no tiene tu pasado en tu contra. No hay ayeres en la carretera.

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  Travel, Carpe Diem, Past

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

  William Menos Calor-Luna

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• On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  Change, Blue, Color

  Edgar I. Ailor, William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “BLUE HIGHWAYS Revisited”, p.11, University of Missouri Press

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• Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more.

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  Men, Inheritance, Chance

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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• You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  Feel Better, Feel Good, Feelings

  William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• What is it in man that for a long while lies unknown and unseen only one day to emerge and push him into a new land of the eye, a new region of the mind, a place he has never dreamed of? Maybe it's like the force in spores lying quietly under asphalt until the day they push a soft, bulbous mushroom head right through the pavement. There's nothing you can do to stop it.

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  Mentira, Ojo, Hombres

  "Blue Highways". Book by William Least Heat-Moon, 1982.

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• Hay dos tipos de aventureros: los que van de verdad con la esperanza de encontrar aventuras y los que van en secreto con la esperanza de no encontrarlas.

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  Travel, Adventure, Two

  William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.59, Hachette UK

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• Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  Errors, Discovery, Joy

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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. The seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all things.

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  Rain, Wind, Religion

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• 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.

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  Night, Source, Restriction

  William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.8, Hachette UK

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

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  Motivational, Travel, Journey

  Edgar I. Ailor, William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “BLUE HIGHWAYS Revisited”, p.11, University of Missouri Press

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• Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  Men, Wander, Insight

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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• Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  Country, Exploration

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• Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  Law, Interstate, Happens

  William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.15, Hachette UK

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

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  Self, Fool, Hindrance

  William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.233, Hachette UK

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• One of the sweet and expectable aspects of life afloat is the perpetual present moment one lives in and a perception that time is nothing more than the current, an eternal flowing back to the sea.

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  Sweet, Sea, Perception

  William Least Heat-Moon (1999). “River-Horse: A Voyage Across America”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• New ways of seeing can disclose new things… But turn the question around. Do new things make for new ways of seeing?

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  Vision, Way, Turns

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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• ...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  Dream, Journey, Voyages

  William Least Heat-Moon (1999). “River-Horse: A Voyage Across America”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  Real, Men, Trying

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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• Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  Adventure, Ignorance

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• At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  Stupid, Sleep, Men

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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• Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  History, Historical, Kind

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