Rebecca Solnit Quotes
The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.
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Christianity is a battle not a dream.
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I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.
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Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.
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I love designer stuff but like it will only be like, on a whim. I love Alexander Wang so much, but it's expensive.
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Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein?
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I am a geek nerd who happened to have a temporary period of jockiness.
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Sin? Sin is a delusional sickness spawned to peddle a delusional treatment.
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Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.
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God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.
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Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing.
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I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.
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Kid A is about an abortion. *laughs* It's about how our music is an abortion
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The blackness of darkness, forever.
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Go to the family where darkness and suspicion and jealousy and disorder reign, and if they will but receive Christ, mark how light and confidence and order and peace spring up. Go to the regions of superstition and idolatry, and see what transformations are effected by Jesus.
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An accountant is a man who puts his head in the past and backs his ass into the future.
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When digital recording came in about '84, everything started to follow into digital. Now, you've got the best recording media in the world, but it's not very pleasing to the ear.
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The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.
