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| 710b7c4 | 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. | youth mccandless inexperience krakauer naivete | Jon Krakauer | |
| 0c27341 | I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams. | krakauer into-the-wild climbing | Jon Krakauer |