June 2009
46 posts
aLeXaNdEr SuPeRtRaMp Chris McCandless
“I have lived through much and now I think I have found what is needed for...”
– Leo Tolstoy
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“Death’s a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made
Something more equal...”
– From “Wise Men in Their Bad Hours” by poet Robinson Jeffers (As quoted by Louis L’Amour in his memoir, Education of A Wandering Man, a book Chris had with him in Alaska)
“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is...”
– Leo Tolstoy in his “War and Peace”
Hard Sun written and sung by Eddie Vedder for the...
“I want to go up to them and say Stop,
don’t do it— she’s the wrong...”
– Sharon Olds, May 1937 (In the movie, Chris reads this to his sister, Carine, outside the restaurant)
“There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is rapture on the lonely shore,...”
– Lord Byron
“I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!”
– Chris McCandless’ journal from Alaska
“Greetings from Fairbanks!
This is the last you shall hear from me Wayne....”
– Chris McCandless, in postcard sent to Wayne Westerberg in Carthage, South Dakota, from Alaska
“Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness… give...”
– Chris McCandless expanded on a quote stated by Henry David Thoreau
“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life...”
– Chris McCandless
“The core of mans’ spirit comes from new experiences.”
– Chris McCandless
“I read somewhere… how important it is in life not necessarily to be...”
– Chris McCandless
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the...”
– Chris McCandless
“Surely all Americans have the right to give their money only to those causes...”
– Chris McCandless
“Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into...”
– Chris McCandless
“Two years he walks the earth.
No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes....”
– Alexander Supertramp
May 1992
