Frases de Christopher McCandless
Christopher McCandless
Data de nascimento: 12. Fevereiro 1968
Data de falecimento: 18. Agosto 1992
Outros nomes:Christopher Johnson McCandless
Christopher Johnson McCandless , também conhecido como Alexander Supertramp ou Alex Supertramp foi um viajante americano que morreu perto do Parque Nacional Denali depois de caminhar sozinho na selva alasquiana com pouca comida e equipamento. O jornalista Jon Krakauer escreveu um livro sobre a sua vida, Into the Wild, publicado em 1996, que foi adaptado em filme, em 2007, dirigido por Sean Penn, Into the Wild, com Emile Hirsch como Christopher McCandless.
Um artigo completo sobre McCandless também apareceu na edição de 8 de fevereiro de 1993 da revista The New Yorker.
Citações Christopher McCandless
„Surely all Americans have the right to give their money only to those causes which they support. But what kind of society has this created? A society where the ignorant reign. A society where enlightened must hold their tongues. A nation whose politicians must profess half-hearted devotion to an ancient fable or face the disastrous consequences of speaking their true mind.“
— Christopher McCandless
Writing on religious fanaticism in The Emory Wheel student newspaper, October 1987<!-- What school? published or quoted where? -->
„Two Years He Walks The Earth. No Phone, No Pool, No Pets, No Cigarettes. Ultimate Freedom. An Extremist. An Aesthetic Voyager Whose Home Is The Road. Escaped From Atlanta. Thou Shalt Not Return, Cause "The West Is The Best." And Now After Two Rambling Years Comes The Final And Greatest Adventure. The Climactic Battle To Kill The False Being Within And Victoriously Conclude The Spiritual Revolution! Ten Days + Nights Of Freight Trains And Hitchhiking Bring Him To The Great White North. No Longer To Be Poisoned By Civilization He Flees, And Walks Alone Upon The Land To Become Lost In The Wild [double underline under "Wild"]. Alexander Supertramp May 1992.“
— Christopher McCandless
Carved into a sheet of plywood inside the "Magic Bus", May 2, 1992
„Greetings from Fairbanks! This is the last you shall hear from me Wayne. Arrived here 2 days ago. It was very difficult to catch rides in the Yukon Territory, but I finally got here. Please return all mail I receive to the sender. It might be a very long time before I return South. If this adventure proves fatal and you don't ever hear from me again I want you to know your [sic] a great man. I now walk into the wild. Alex.“
— Christopher McCandless
In a postcard sent to Wayne Westerberg, April 27, 1992.
„So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence their [sic] is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.“
— Christopher McCandless
In a letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992
„I HAVE HAD A HAPPY LIFE AND THANK THE LORD. GOODBYE AND MAY G All!“
— Christopher McCandless
Final written goodbye, August 13, 1992 [http://www.christophermccandless.info/bio.html]
„You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only of principaly [sic] from human relation[ships]. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.“
— Christopher McCandless
In a letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992
„Written on a page in his copy of Doctor Zhivago“
— Christopher McCandless
He is attributed to have commented on this Doctor Zhivago passage: "And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness..." (Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, Pan Macmillan, 2011 p. 188; see also [http://www.christophermccandless.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5479])
