Jon Krakauer citations (54 citations, Page 2)

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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.”

Jon Krakauer livre Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

“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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Jon Krakauer livre Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

“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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Jon Krakauer livre Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

“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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Jon Krakauer livre Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

“I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. 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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Jon Krakauer livre Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

“I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.”

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Jon Krakauer livre Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

“Getting to the top of any given mountain was considered much less important than how one got there: prestige was earned by tackling the most unforgiving routes with minimal equipment, in the boldest style imaginable.”

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Source: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

“Common sense is no match for the voice of God.”

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Source: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

“The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”

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“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.”

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Jon Krakauer livre Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

“It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.”

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Jon Krakauer

Source: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

“Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their loves. The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that care nothing for hope or longing.”

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Jon Krakauer livre Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

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

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Jon Krakauer livre Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains

Source: Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains

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

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Jon Krakauer livre Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

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

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Source: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

“Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don’t need to worry about me; I have a college education. I’m not destitute. I'm living like this by choice.”

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Jon Krakauer livre Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

“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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Source: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

“People don't get it. He didn't even have a fuckin' map; what kind of idiot? THAT was the point. There's no blank spots on the map anymore, anywhere on earth. If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind.”

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“With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill,” Hall observed. “The trick is to get back down alive.”

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Jon Krakauer livre Into Thin Air

Source: Into Thin Air

“But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.”

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Jon Krakauer livre Into Thin Air

Source: Into Thin Air

“Mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.”

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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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Jon Krakauer livre Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

“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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Jon Krakauer livre Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

“Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That’s why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that’s why they write symphonies..”

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Jon Krakauer livre Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

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