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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

Mortenson was merely selling what the public was eager to buy. — Jon Krakauer

Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty. And you can't investigate up the chain of command, which is a huge impediment. — 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

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. — Jon Krakauer

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. — Jon Krakauer

Huguet, on the other hand, insisted that prosecutors settle for nothing less than a lengthy sentence at the state penitentiary in Deer Lodge. — 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

There are no true answers, just shades of grey, coincidence, and circumstance. — Jon Krakauer

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. — Jon Krakauer

bought my respect. — Jon Krakauer

Once you believe that God is speaking directly to you, there is no discussion. — Jon Krakauer

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

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

I read somewhere ... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong ... to measure yourself at least once. — Jon Krakauer

He'd just nod politely and then do exactly what he wanted, — Jon Krakauer

Relish the hardship. — Jon Krakauer

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

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines upon you. — 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) — Jon Krakauer

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

You should own nothing except what you can carry on your back at a dead run. — Jon Krakauer

The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype. — Jon Krakauer

Many decisions are made in our lifetime, Most relatively insignificant while others life altering — Jon Krakauer

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. - — Jon Krakauer

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, — 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 — Jon Krakauer

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

He never suspected that in so doing, he was crossing his Rubicon. — 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

We understand that honor, truth and hard work win in the end. We are Montana. — 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

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

The boy unmasked the gaping void in Franz's life even as he helped fill it. — 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. — Jon Krakauer

What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now? — Jon Krakauer

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

Rob Hall was, without doubt, the most competent guide in mountaineering. — 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, — Jon Krakauer

Simply by recounting their stories and breaking that silence, survivors of sexual assault strike a powerful blow against their assailants. — Jon Krakauer

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. — Jon Krakauer

Maybe, I think, I don't have to be great at this; maybe I just have to be good enough. — Jon Krakauer

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one. — 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

He must have been very brave and very strong, at the end, not to do himself in. — 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. — Jon Krakauer

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 — 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

The LDS Church has annual revenues estimated at more than $6 billion, and — Jon Krakauer

Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism. — Jon Krakauer