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Them Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and…
- Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them.
- At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we do and get…
- In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may…
- The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than…
- You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant for decades because…
- The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we…
- Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes…
- 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…
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle