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

William Least Heat-Moon

#Miles Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect.”
“I love playing a character that eats on television. It's so fun.”
“It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This is the dimension of moral evaluation; "good/evil" is supposed always to trump any other form of evaluation, but that is an assumption, probably the result of the long history of the Christianisation and then gradual de-Christianisation of Europe, which one need not make. Evaluation need not mean moral evaluation, but might include assessments of efficiency, ... simplicity, perspicuousness, aesthetic appeal, and so on.”

Source : "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.
“He swept Raisa up into his arms and kissed her like it was his first, last, and only”
“Japan's inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan.”
“All my life I've wanted to see London. [...] I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die.”

Source : "The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street".
“The real meaning of the word paranoia is--- a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected.”
“Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany.”

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