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• I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess.

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  College, Years, Parent

  "Into the Wild". Adventure, Biography, Drama, 2007.

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• 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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  Writing, Views, Symphony

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.186, Pan Macmillan

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• It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you.

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  Memories, Real, Joy

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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• Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space. It's like going to the moon.

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  Moon, Impact, Collective Unconscious

  "Krakauer in Antarctica", www.pbs.org. February 11, 2003.

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• The thing that is most beautiful about Antarctica for me is the light. It's like no other light on Earth, because the air is so free of impurities. You get drugged by it, like when you listen to one of your favorite songs. The light there is a mood-enhancing substance.

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  Beautiful, Song, Light

  "Krakauer in Antarctica". Interview with Liesl Clark, www.pbs.org. February 11, 2003.

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• I think I understand that religious faith which makes the holy brave and strong; my strength is just somewhere else--it's in myself...I do not fear what may await me, though I'm equally confident that nothing awaits.

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  Religious, Strong, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Nov 27, 2011

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• But perhaps the greatest attraction of Mormonism was the promise that each follower would be granted an extraordinarily intimate relationship with God. Joseph taught and encouraged his adherents to receive personal communiqués straight from the Lord. Divine revelation formed the bedrock of the religion.

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  Intimate Relationships, Promise, Intimate Relationship With God

  Jon Krakauer (2013). “Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

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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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  People, Promise, Illusion

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• You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.

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  Thinking, Joy, Unconventional

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.58, Pan Macmillan

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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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  Justice, Done, Pieces

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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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  Passion, Youth, Rich

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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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  Loss, Mind, Irreparable

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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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  People, World, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Sep 24, 2016

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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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  Alex, Want, Matter

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.7, Pan Macmillan

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• This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but if you're too driven you're likely to die.

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  Order, Succeed, Driven

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.133, Pan Macmillan

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• If you're not a feminist, you're part of the problem.

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  Feminist, Problem, Ifs

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• There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

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  War, Misery, Glamorous

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• Short form media is reductionist by nature.

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  Media, Form

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• Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from the tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end.

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  Perspective, Missing, Mountain

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

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• Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.

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  Careers, Lines, Satisfaction

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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