"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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"There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases to be a blank; it becomes a picture full of the most varied and animated figures."
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"The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?"
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"A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map."
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"Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see."
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"What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?"
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"I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process."
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"It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar."
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"I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe."
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"I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6."
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"She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and conjure up vivid, living scenery."
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"Phoney: Here's your problem Fone Bone! We're off the map! Get a bigger map!"
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"Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst."
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"I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear."
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"Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth."
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"How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality."
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"Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn."
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"It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters."
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"Principles are the territory. Values are maps."
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"If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards."
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