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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.
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While tentbound high on Everest, Mallory and his companions would read aloud to one another from Hamlet and King Lear
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Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty. And you can't investigate up the chain of command, which is a huge impediment.
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He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others ...
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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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Some people have big dreams, some people have small dreams ... Whatever you have, the important thing is that you never stop dreaming. -Doug Hansen
— Jon Krakauer
Common sense is no match for the voice of God.
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You hear that rape victims avoid sex afterwards. But it's actually just as common for some victims to become promiscuous in self-destructive ways.
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Huguet, on the other hand, insisted that prosecutors settle for nothing less than a lengthy sentence at the state penitentiary in Deer Lodge.
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My ignorance was inexcusable, and it made me ashamed.
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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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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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I came to understand that I had baffled and infuriated my father at least as much as he had baffled and infuriated me.
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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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bought my respect.
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I love being outdoors, being in the mountains and the desert, and my wife enjoys that too. That's one of the things that sustain our relationship.
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I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
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The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.
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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.
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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;
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The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road.
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I now walk into the wild.
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I read somewhere ... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong ... to measure yourself at least once.
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He'd just nod politely and then do exactly what he wanted,
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Relish the hardship.
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I'm going to have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them in the future because they will think they have bought my respect.
— Jon Krakauer
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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But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That's what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.
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Many decisions are made in our lifetime, Most relatively insignificant while others life altering
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A rapist, by definition, is only interested in gratifying his own desires. A rapist doesn't care what a woman wants. If he did, he wouldn't rape. -
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The United States Violence Against Women Act of 2005 requires that all victims of sexual assault be given free access to an evidence collection kit,
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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.
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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.
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If you're not a feminist, you're part of the problem.
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The pieces I've written for 'Outside' magazine are definitely my best work, and they're virtually all about the outdoors.
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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.
— Jon Krakauer
Bouldering isn't really a sport. It's a climbing activity with metaphysical, mystical, and philosophical overtones. -John Gill-
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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.
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My life was falling apart. But somehow I stuck it out.
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That's what was great about him. He tried. Not many do.
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I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book.
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Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.
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Weeping ... betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.
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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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Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.
-Chris McCandless — Jon Krakauer
-Chris McCandless — Jon Krakauer
In the adversarial system, it's more important to follow legal procedure than to speak the truth.
— Jon Krakauer
You get a compound fracture in Colorado where I live, and you can probably be in a hospital within a matter of hours, certainly within a day.
— Jon Krakauer
At such moments something resembling happiness actually stirs in your chest, but it isn't the sort of emotion you want to lean on very hard.
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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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In reality, the [American legal] system promotes chicanery, outright deceit, and other egregious conduct by trial lawyers.
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Finds Mexicans to be warm, friendly people. Much more hospitable than Americans ... .
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Buffeted by the passions and longings of youth.
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Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency.
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Short form media is reductionist by nature.
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connoisseurs of geologic form,
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Simply by recounting their stories and breaking that silence, survivors of sexual assault strike a powerful blow against their assailants.
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Once Everest was determined to be the highest summit on earth, it was only a matter of time before people decided that Everest needed to be climbed.
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Maybe, I think, I don't have to be great at this; maybe I just have to be good enough.
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guys who may have 'made mistakes' nearly always get the benefit of the doubt. Drunk girls, however, do not.
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But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.
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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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Books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.
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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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There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing.
— Jon Krakauer
But men have been committing heinous acts in the name of God ever since mankind began believing in deities, and extremists exist within all religions.
— Jon Krakauer
There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.
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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. Thomas F. Hornbein
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Thus the slopes of Everest are littered with corpses.
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How can a society actively promote religious faith on one hand and condemn a man for zealously adhering to his faith on the other?
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It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.
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I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.
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The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.
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