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

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

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  1. Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible. – Rebecca Solnit
  2. The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. – Rebecca Solnit
  3. Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing. – Dejan Stojanovic
  4. The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss. – Rebecca Solnit
  5. If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one’s feet is real in a way reading with one’s eyes alone is not. – Rebecca Solnit
  6. … a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane. – Rebecca Solnit
  7. Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of. – Rebecca Solnit
  8. In contemporary parlance, sex is biological and gender is socially constructed. – Rebecca Solnit
  9. You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it. – Rebecca Solnit
  10. …the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork. – Rebecca Solnit
  11. …explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge. – Rebecca Solnit
  12. Like racism, misogyny can never be adequately addressed by its victims alone. – Rebecca Solnit
  13. Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task. – Rebecca Solnit
  14. At my glummest, I sometimes think women get to chose- between being punished for being unsubjugated and the continual punishment of subjugation. – Rebecca Solnit
  15. Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss. – Rebecca Solnit
  16. Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street. – Rebecca Solnit
  17. The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany. – Rebecca Solnit
  18. …I fear their false urgency, their call to speed, their insistence that travel is less important than arrival… – Rebecca Solnit
  19. No matter how deeply you come to know a place, you can keep coming back to know it more. – Rebecca Solnit
  20. I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last. – Rebecca Solnit
  21. To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous. – Rebecca Solnit
  22. the revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality. – Rebecca Solnit
  23. Silence is what allows people to suffer without recourse, what allows hypocrisies and lies to grow and flourish, crimes to go unpunished. – Rebecca Solnit
  24. A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world. – Rebecca Solnit
  25. Disenchantment is the blessing of becoming yourself. – Rebecca Solnit
  26. Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be? – Rebecca Solnit
  27. Were revolutions ever really what we thought them to be? – Rebecca Solnit
  28. A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape. – Rebecca Solnit
  29. Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it. – Rebecca Solnit
  30. We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies. – Rebecca Solnit
  31. The art is not one of forgetting but letting go – Rebecca Solnit
  32. It is not possible to say too much about Christ. But it is quite possible to say too little about hell. – JC Ryle
  33. It is hard to say YES when you cannot say NO. Say NO a lot more. Mean it. Watch how saying YES then becomes easier. – Gary K Smith
  34. He sometimes halted without saying anything. Either he had finally nothing to say or while having something to say he finally decided not to say it. – Samuel Beckett
  35. One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so. – Franz Kafka
  36. Expression is saying what you wish to say, Impression is saying what others wish to hear. – Krishna Saagar
  37. Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  38. If you can’t explain why someone should pay attention to what you’re saying, maybe you shouldn’t be saying it. – Dave Burgess
  39. The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing… – Alan Dapre
  40. Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing… the rest will follow. – Jane Yolen

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