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I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you're not a feminist, then you're a problem.
— Jon Krakauer
But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.
— Jon Krakauer
While tentbound high on Everest, Mallory and his companions would read aloud to one another from Hamlet and King Lear
— Jon Krakauer
He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others ...
— Jon Krakauer
Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.
— Jon Krakauer
Common sense is no match for the voice of God.
— Jon Krakauer
My ignorance was inexcusable, and it made me ashamed.
— Jon Krakauer
Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.
— Jon Krakauer
Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.
— Jon Krakauer
I came to understand that I had baffled and infuriated my father at least as much as he had baffled and infuriated me.
— Jon Krakauer
bought my respect.
— Jon Krakauer
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
— Jon Krakauer
The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.
— Jon Krakauer
I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.
— Jon Krakauer
When an individual is raped in this country, more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets away with the crime.
— Jon Krakauer
It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life.
— Jon Krakauer
When you forgive, you love.
— Jon Krakauer
I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here ... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness ... give me truth.
— Jon Krakauer
With the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them;
— Jon Krakauer
The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road.
— Jon Krakauer
I now walk into the wild.
— Jon Krakauer
He'd just nod politely and then do exactly what he wanted,
— Jon Krakauer
Relish the hardship.
— Jon Krakauer
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But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That's what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.
— Jon Krakauer
Many decisions are made in our lifetime, Most relatively insignificant while others life altering
— Jon Krakauer
When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.
— Jon Krakauer
The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.
— Jon Krakauer
As I point out in the very first pages of 'Into the Wild,' I approached this book not as a normal, you know, unbiased journalist.
— Jon Krakauer
If you're not a feminist, you're part of the problem.
— Jon Krakauer
The pieces I've written for 'Outside' magazine are definitely my best work, and they're virtually all about the outdoors.
— Jon Krakauer
Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.
— Jon Krakauer
Bouldering isn't really a sport. It's a climbing activity with metaphysical, mystical, and philosophical overtones. -John Gill-
— Jon Krakauer
We were too tired to help. Above 8,000 meters is not a place where people can afford morality
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to explore the inner country of his own soul.
— Jon Krakauer
My life was falling apart. But somehow I stuck it out.
— Jon Krakauer
That's what was great about him. He tried. Not many do.
— Jon Krakauer
I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book.
— Jon Krakauer
Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.
— Jon Krakauer
Weeping ... betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.
— Jon Krakauer
The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.
— Jon Krakauer
Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. -Chris McCandless — Jon Krakauer
In the adversarial system, it's more important to follow legal procedure than to speak the truth.
— Jon Krakauer
What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?
— Jon Krakauer
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In reality, the [American legal] system promotes chicanery, outright deceit, and other egregious conduct by trial lawyers.
— Jon Krakauer
Finds Mexicans to be warm, friendly people. Much more hospitable than Americans ... .
— Jon Krakauer
Buffeted by the passions and longings of youth.
— Jon Krakauer
Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency.
— Jon Krakauer
Short form media is reductionist by nature.
— Jon Krakauer
connoisseurs of geologic form,
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Maybe, I think, I don't have to be great at this; maybe I just have to be good enough.
— Jon Krakauer
guys who may have 'made mistakes' nearly always get the benefit of the doubt. Drunk girls, however, do not.
— Jon Krakauer
But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.
— Jon Krakauer
With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill," Hall observed. "The trick is to get back down alive.
— Jon Krakauer
Books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.
— Jon Krakauer
In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team.
— Jon Krakauer
There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing.
— Jon Krakauer
There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.
— Jon Krakauer
Thus the slopes of Everest are littered with corpses.
— Jon Krakauer
How can a society actively promote religious faith on one hand and condemn a man for zealously adhering to his faith on the other?
— Jon Krakauer
It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.
— Jon Krakauer
I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.
— Jon Krakauer
The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.
— Jon Krakauer
