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You can get a lawyer with two months off or a New York socialite who wants to play at being Lewis and Clark and put them up there, but Everest is still in charge; it can still kick butt.
- Jon Krakauer
#Butt
#Kick
#Lawyer
#New
#Play
Short form media is reductionist by nature.
- Jon Krakauer
#Form
#Media
#Nature
#Short
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.
- Jon Krakauer
#Impact
#Just
#Moon
#People
#Space
Everest is not real climbing. It's rich people climbing. It's a trophy on the wall, and they're done... When I say I wish I'd never gone, I really mean that.
- Jon Krakauer
#People
#Real
#Rich
#Trophy
#Wish
I'm not even religious, but I get fanaticism. I get the appeal of it.
- Jon Krakauer
#Appeal
#Even
#Fanaticism
#Get
#Religious
When I write books, I've learned not to have any expectations that I'm going to change the world.
- Jon Krakauer
#Change The World
#Change
#Learned
#World
When I was 23, I went to Alaska by myself into the glaciers of the coast range and climbed a mountain by myself. It was incredibly reckless, incredibly stupid. But I was lucky. And I survived, and I came back to tell my story.
- Jon Krakauer
#Back
#Glaciers
#Myself
#Story
#Stupid
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
#Brain
#Head
#How
#Problem
#Your
I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book.
- Jon Krakauer
#Book
#Enjoy
#Enough
#Every
#Research
I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.
- Jon Krakauer
#Absolute
#Illusion
#People
#Promise
#Who
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.
- Jon Krakauer
#Desert
#Love
#Relationship
#Things
#Wife
I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.
- Jon Krakauer
#Appeal
#Natural
#Power
#Think
#World
When I was 23, I climbed this mountain in Alaska called Devil's Thumb alone. It was incredibly dangerous, and I did it because I thought that if I did something that hard and pulled it off, my life was gonna be transformed. And of course, nothing happened. But I get the search for purpose.
- Jon Krakauer
#Alone
#Devil
#Life
#Purpose
#Search
Let's not mince words: Everest doesn't attract a whole lot of well-balanced folks. The self-selection process tends to weed out the cautious and the sensible in favor of those who are single-minded and incredibly driven. Which is a big reason the mountain is so dangerous.
- Jon Krakauer
#Big
#Dangerous
#Process
#Reason
#Words
It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.
- Jon Krakauer
#Believe
#Deserve
#Desire
#Easy
#Young
Why climb? That's a question that baffles me. It perplexes me. I really asked that a lot on Everest. I can't justify it. I can't say it's for a good cause. All I can say is look at the history of exploration: it's full of vainglorious pursuits.
- Jon Krakauer
#Exploration
#Good
#History
#I Can
#Look
#Me
Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.
- Jon Krakauer
#Happiness
#Me
#Meaning
#Nothing
#Purpose
The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road.
- Jon Krakauer
#Brick
#Everest
#Road
#Way
#Yellow
Climbing Mount Everest was the biggest mistake I've ever made in my life. I wish I'd never gone. I suffered for years of PTSD and still suffer from what happened. I'm glad I wrote a book about it. But, you know, if I could go back and relive my life, I would never have climbed Everest.
- Jon Krakauer
#Back
#Life
#Mistake
#My Life
#Wish
There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.
- Jon Krakauer
#Death
#Glamorous
#Random
#Romantic
#War
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