"I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE……" — Rebecca Solnit
"I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND OBSCURE, THE IMPRACTICAL AND LOCAL AND SMALL."
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Rebecca Solnit
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127 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit has 127 quotes on this site.
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The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend…
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The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other…
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How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
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Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of…
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Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall,…
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For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that…
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The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score.…
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I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge…
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Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's…
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Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
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When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed…
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We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.
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More Frail Quotes
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The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.
— Giotto di Bondone
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People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little…
— Bruce Campbell
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I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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The bending of men's hearts to believe and persevere are the supernatural fruits of God's eternal decree, and not the…
— William Jenkyn
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Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life…
— Subhas Chandra Bose
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Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race,…
— Aristophanes
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Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the…
— Thomas de Quincey
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Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my…
— William Shakespeare
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Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or…
— Paul of the Cross
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The Eucharist is source and pledge of blessedness and glory, not for the soul alone, but for the body also....…
— Pope Leo XIII
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