Jon Krakauer Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. April 12, 1954
Birthday: April 12
Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes — all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand.
source: Jon Krakauer (2009). “Into the Wild”, p.150, Anchor
topic: Opportunity, Dust, Hands, Overpowering, Clarity Of Purpose, Task At Hand
