Maps Quotes - Page 26

• If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my star would be the one you had to travel the most light-years from to get to his. You would die getting to him.

  Miranda July

  Stars, Light, Years

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?

  Nick Flynn

  Years, Want, Steps

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.119, Faber & Faber

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• That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads." "That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Dwarves, Peter

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• Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

  Roseanne Barr

  Birthday, Travel, Humor

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• …Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze just above the inked fibers of a map, that pure zone between land and chart, between distances and legends, between nature and storyteller. The place they had chosen to come to, to be their best selves, to be unconscious of ancestry. Here, apart from the sun compass and the odometer mileage, and the book, he was alone, his own invention. He knew during these times how the mirage worked, the fata morgana, for he was within it.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Distance, Book, Land

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• The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing in biological, political, and socioeconomic fairy tales) as long as possible ... that students should be given the best possible maps of the territories of experience in order that they may be prepared for life, is not as popular as might be assumed.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Education, Children, Believe

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• I loved them all the way one loves at any age -- if it's real at all -- obsessively, painfully, with wild exultation, with guilt, with conflict; I wrote poems to and about them, I put them into novels (disguised of course); I brooded upon why they were as they were, so often maddening don't you know? I wrote them ridiculous letters. I lived with their faces. I knew their every gesture by heart. I stalked them like wild animals. I studied them as if they were maps of the world -- and in a way I suppose they were.

  May Sarton

  Real, Heart, Animal

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The process of arrival is more subtle and complex. It involves acts of contrition. You must appease the gods. You must find novel forms of penance. You must tattoo your children and look at the wonder. It's about conjuring and awakening and intuitions you wish you never had.

  Kate Braverman

  Tattoo, Children, Real

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• I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it scared me too, that I might end up as a mother of 3 working in a psychiatrist's office, or renting surfboards...I guess I saw their lives as failed somehow, absent of the Big Win...What is fate was an inherited trait? What if luck came through the genetic line, and the ability to "succeed" at your chosen "direction" was handed down, just like the family china? Maybe I was destined to be a weed too.

  Deb Caletti

  Weed, Mother, Fate

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• Second to the right, and straight on till morning.' That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland; but even birds, carrying maps and consulting them at windy corners, could not have sighted it with these instructions. Peter, you see, just said anything that came into his head.

  James M. Barrie

  Morning, Bird, Way

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.43, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.

  J. K. Rowling

  Perfect, Knees, London

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• Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Water, Diversity, Design

  Rebecca Solnit (2008). “Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• All I ever wanted was a world without maps.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Life, World, Geography

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• What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

  Aldo Leopold

  Wilderness, Blank, Spots

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.135, Oxford University Press

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• I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Prayer, Recipes

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• Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.

  Steven Pinker

  Psychology, Mind, Woven

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• If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Lines, Might

  Neil Cox, Pablo Picasso (2010). “The Picasso Book”, Tate

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• Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.

  Camille Paglia

  Blow, White, African American

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• Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Bird, Flying, Firsts

  "Now that I've finally been admitted to Britain it seems that everyone else suddenly wants to leave" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2008.

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• Once traveling, it's remarkable how quickly faith erodes. It starts to look like something else--ignorance, for example. Same thing happened to the Israelites. Sure it's weak, but sometimes you'd rather just have a map.

  Leif Enger

  Ignorance, Example, Looks

  Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.134, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Explore me' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you and I cannot find the way out. Sometimes I think I’m free, coughed up like Jonah from the whale, but then I turn a corner and recognise myself again. Myself in your skin, myself lodged in your bones, myself floating in the cavities that decorate every surgeon’s wall. That is how I know you. You are what I know.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Wall, Home, Thinking

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.120, Random House

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• To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Travel, Imagination

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.209, Library of America

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• I still think about the letter you asked me to write. It nags at me, even though you're gone and there's no one to give it to anymore. Sometimes I work on it in my head, trying to map out the story you asked me to tell, about everything that happened this past fall and winter. It's all still there, like a movie I can watch when I want to. Which is never.

  Rebecca Stead

  Fall, Writing, Winter

  Rebecca Stead (2010). “When You Reach Me/First Light”, p.15, Wendy Lamb Books

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• I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Political, Foundation

  Interview with TF-1 Television Channel (France), en.kremlin.ru. July 12, 2006.

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• I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

  Nick Hornby

  Reading, Empires, British

  Nick Hornby (2006). “Housekeeping Vs. the Dirt”, McSweeneys Books

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