"Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian."
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"I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know."
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"The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America."
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"Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection."
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"The Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has the, continual threat for life; it's got the thread of Indians; it's got disease. It has daily risk where these men may go under the water. It's got the fight with the elements. It's got the el the role of the unknown continually threatening them."
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"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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"Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement."
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"I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life."
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"I've read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn't believe it, what with the sky white with starlight. I saw a million stars with one eye and two million with both."
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"With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected."
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"Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law."
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