Jon Krakauer Short Quotes

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I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

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When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines upon you.

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You should own nothing except what you can carry on your back at a dead run.

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A trancelike state settles over your efforts; the climb becomes a clear-eyed dream.

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What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?

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Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency.

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Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

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The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.

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The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.

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Books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.

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Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.

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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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Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.

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Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.

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The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.

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Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

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In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team.

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I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme's appeal. That it wouldn't be easy was the whole point.

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If you're bumming out, you're not gonna get to the top, so as long as we're up here we might as well make a point of grooving. (Quoting Scott Fischer)

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According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.

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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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My reasoning, if one can call it that, was inflamed by the scatter shot passions of youth and a literary diet overly rich in the works of Nietzshe, Kerouac, and John Menlove Edwards...

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It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

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If you don't take it, I'm going to throw it away," Alex cheerfully retorted. "I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.

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He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn't a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times when he knew nobody would be around.

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I've come to terms with the fact that uncertainty is an inescapable corollary of life. An abundance of mystery is simply part of the bargain — which doesn't strike me as something to lament.

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To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrestled from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things than came easily.

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