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There are map people whose joy is to lavish more attention on the sheets of colored paper than on the colored land rolling by. I have listened to acco...more

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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

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Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one. If I go ahead on all of 'em, it's too much. You got to live ahea...more

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There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

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And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey--a look of longing. "Lord! I wish I could go.

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And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey—a look of longing. “Lord! I wish I could go.” “Don’t you like it here?” “Sure. It’s all ...more

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You don't even know where I'm going.""I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.

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When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a si...more

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In long-range planning for a trip, I think there is a private conviction that it won’t happen. As the day approached, my warm bed and comfortable hous...more

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I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, awa...more