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Out Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of…
- It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its…
- The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To…
- Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her,…
- For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the…
- For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a…
- You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found...
- Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with…
- Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story…
- The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and…
- We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important,…
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- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster