"Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking."

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Source : "Thinking on Her Feet / Author Rebecca Solnit wrote a book about walking -- while on the move". Interview with Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. May 2, 2000.

Rebecca Solnit

#Thinking Quotes #Doing Nothing Quotes #Done Quotes

“For a second, I'm afraid he's dying. I have to remind myself that I don't care.”
“Fine!" muttered Mogget. "Wet, cold, and full of holes. Another fun day on the river.”
“One cup poured into another makes different waters; tears shed by one eye would blind if wept into another's eye. The breast we strike in joy is not the breast we strike in pain; any man's smile would be consternation on another's mouth.”
“We need to organize and figure out our own voice as a bloc and stop doubting ourselves.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.”
“It doesn't matter to me whether I write in a man's voice or a woman's, or first or third person for that matter. Those choices come down to the story and I just go with it.”
“Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities.”
“I love what I do and I love the fans.”

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