"Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone."

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Source : Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.42, Granta Books

Rebecca Solnit

#Writing Quotes

“Capping the size of American banks won't eliminate the needs of big businesses; it will force them to turn to foreign banks that won't face the same restrictions.”
“Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.”
“The upshot of her tirade was that I was the devil's spawn and should be locked up in a tower before I unleashed hordes of the living dead to slaughter them all in their sleep. Well, maybe that's an exaggeration, but not by much.”
“Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.”

Source : Philip Rieff (1979). “Freud: The Mind of the Moralist”, p.12, University of Chicago Press
“I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more.”
“Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.”
“Let go of the thoughts, let go of the mind, let go of everything. Let go! Drop it! Drop everything. Hold onto nothing.”
“I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Don't recommend doing it alone. I also built a 100-square-foot back porch. Again, don't recommend doing it alone.”

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