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“Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough.”

William Least Heat-Moon livre Blue Highways

Part Seven, Chapter 7.
Blue Highways (1982)
Contexte: Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited.

“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?”

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William Least Heat-Moon livre Blue Highways

Part Four, Chapter 12.
Blue Highways (1982)
Contexte: 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.

“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.”

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William Least Heat-Moon livre Blue Highways

Part Ten, Chapter 4.
Blue Highways (1982)

“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.”

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Part Five, Chapter 3.
Blue Highways (1982)

“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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Part Five, Chapter 6.
Blue Highways (1982)