Rebecca Solnit Quotes
To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
Quotes to Explore
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.
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Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.
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This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.
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I got history solidly under my belt, reading Russian history and biographies. I couldn't change the facts. I could only play with how the people might have responded to the facts of their lives.
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I love my refrigerator.
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I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.
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When people dont know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.
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If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
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I love to work. I love doing standup.
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Ever since I was 15, when I did my first movie by myself, where my mom wasn't there and I had a guardian, I got to know the crew, and I got to be part of a group and a family. I love that part of it, the friendships that you make.
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The best businesses are the ones that are the most paranoid.
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I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.
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I think people respond to truth. 'Straight Outta Compton' made $60 million over the weekend, right? That's not just a black audience. 'Empire' grew every single week. That's not just a black audience. Black culture is American culture, you know what I mean? They're becoming more and more one in the same.
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The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.
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The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.
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To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
