Jon Krakauer Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 12, 1954

Topics

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Over the longer run, advanced economy policy actions that strengthen global growth and global trade will benefit the EMEs as well.

Jerome Powell

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I want to make sure people know I don't think I have any magic powers. I just have a story that I share.

John Darnielle

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It's far better to shoot a good picture than a good-looking picture.

Robert Richardson

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Step on the moist, pillowsoft earth, walking gingerly aside a weeping steam that calls your name, for it knows how to heal a wounded heart.

Maximillian Degenerez

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If you asked me what caused aging, I would say free radicals and molecules, which spontaneously shift and form and cause damage in all our cells and genes. The body usually repairs and replaces the damage in these genes. But as you get older, the aging clock turns down those defenses.

Michael Fossel

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I want music to move me, and I don't think it can do that without at least a link to tonality. It's the tug between atonal and tonal which makes music poignant.

Stephen Hough

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One of the most pervasive and damaging trends we are seeing in the 21st-century workplace is the deliberate misclassification of workers by employers looking to shift responsibility and cut costs.

Tom Perez

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I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that!

Robert Crumb

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Literary novelists who have a strong handle on plot are often characterized as good vacation reads because they manage to transport you elsewhere, away from the petty facts of ordinary life.

Michelle Dean

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After a great deal of thought and discussions with my family, I have decided not to seek re-election in 2014. Politics shouldn't be a career, and I never intended to make it one.

Jon Runyan

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I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved.

Johnny Flynn

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I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.

Annette Bening

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