"The present rearranges the past. We never tell……" — Rebecca Solnit
"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 are forever picking out constellations from it to fit who and where we are."
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127 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
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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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I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE…
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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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October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills…
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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
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In an organization of any significant size, the executives cannot create the future single-handedly. They must develop the enterprise in…
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The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full…
— Benjamin Franklin
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In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet,…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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Okay, maybe I'm not such a shitty writer. But I can't pull my ideas together, Van Houten. My thoughts are…
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My thoughts are starts I can't fathom into constellations.
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Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.
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How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name…
— Nadeem Aslam
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New York at night, from its bridges, is a miracle. When I first came to the city, it took all…
— Melissa Febos
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No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of…
— George Nelson
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