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"Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away."
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"You don't need extra food, extra water, extra clothing for extra warmth " anything extra. You don't need soap or deodorant. Everything you carry you should need daily."
"Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being."
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
"Light heat all known all white heart breath no sound."
"I'd begun at the soundless place where California touches Mexico with five Gatorade bottles full of water and eleven pounds of gear and lots of candy. My backpack was tiny, no bigger than a schoolgirl's knapsack. Everything I carried was everything I had."
"It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much."
"Fewer the necessities, better your life will be."
"I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you."
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"People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share."
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"Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason."
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