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Rebecca Solnit

"When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the abduction, the accident. Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown. Perhaps fantasy is what you fill up maps with rather than saying that they too contain the unknown."

Source : Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.175, Canongate Books

Rebecca Solnit

#Believe Quotes #Worry Quotes #People Quotes

“It may seem draconian, but the best recommendation I can make is to completely avoid grains.”

Source : John James Audubon (1873). “The Life of John James Audubon, the Naturalist”, p.145
“We must strive everyday so that love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.”
“The voice of an Angel, the Heart of a Lamb, the spirit of a Lioness, the presence of a Goddess, love you R.I.P Whitney Houston.”
“It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means to a very, very high level of technology- and designed a form of life that they seeded onto perhaps this planet. And I suppose it's possible that you might find evidence for that if you look at the details of biochemistry, molecular biology, you might find a signature of some sort of designer.”
“If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.”
“Lessons are not given, they are taken.”

Source : Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.280, Transaction Publishers
“It was time to come up here and retire with my wonderful husband, and my children and my grandchildren, and make that change. I'm not good at hanging on. When I make a decision to cut it off, I have to cut it off completely. I'm not good at, "Oh, I'll stick around and consult a little bit." I'm not good at that and I don't want to do that. I don't think you get anywhere doing that. I mean, I don't, although other people might. But that's not my personality. It's not my id. I have to make the break and be a good sport and adjust to it.”
“It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.”

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