"The magic of the street is the mingling……" — Rebecca Solnit

The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and… - Rebecca Solnit

"The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany."

— Rebecca Solnit

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127 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit has 127 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend…
The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other…
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE…
Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of…
Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall,…
For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that…
The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score.…
I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge…
Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's…
Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed…

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An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You… — Nick Cave
Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound. — Alain de Botton
Synchronicities, epiphanies, peak, and mystical experiences are all cases in which creativity breaks through the barriers of the self and… — F. David Peat
By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable… — James Joyce
If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness. — John F. Kennedy
And I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as… — Kenneth Goldsmith
Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder — Kim Stanley
I will try to hold on to the intense feeling. I will both be glad that that’s no longer happening… — Tavi Gevinson
The Notion Of A Contemporary Epiphany To Me Is Very Exciting, Because It's A Sort Of Biblical Thing. It's Something… — Pamela Stephenson
I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It… — Elizabeth Debicki
Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind. — George Lois
Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty. — Thomas Merton

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