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I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty.
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As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane — as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout — there may be no more potent force than religion.
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At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence.
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In solo climbing the whole enterprise is held together with little more than chutzpah, not the most reliable adhesive.
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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Born:
April 12, 1954
(age 70)
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Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer, primarily known for his writings about the outdoors, especially mountain-climbing.
Known for:
Into the Wild (1996)
Into Thin Air (1996)
Under the Banner of Heaven (2003)
Where Men Win Glory (2009)
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