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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.

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

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  2. … 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
  3. I not only stand on my two feet, but I walk on my two feet for my two feet. – Keely Barton
  4. Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do. – Pearl S Buck
  5. The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss. – Rebecca Solnit
  6. Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of. – Rebecca Solnit
  7. In contemporary parlance, sex is biological and gender is socially constructed. – Rebecca Solnit
  8. You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it. – Rebecca Solnit
  9. …the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork. – Rebecca Solnit
  10. …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
  11. Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task. – Rebecca Solnit
  12. At my glummest, I sometimes think women get to chose- between being punished for being unsubjugated and the continual punishment of subjugation. – Rebecca Solnit
  13. The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. – Rebecca Solnit
  14. 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
  15. Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street. – Rebecca Solnit
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  17. …I fear their false urgency, their call to speed, their insistence that travel is less important than arrival… – Rebecca Solnit
  18. No matter how deeply you come to know a place, you can keep coming back to know it more. – Rebecca Solnit
  19. I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last. – Rebecca Solnit
  20. To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous. – Rebecca Solnit
  21. the revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality. – Rebecca Solnit
  22. Silence is what allows people to suffer without recourse, what allows hypocrisies and lies to grow and flourish, crimes to go unpunished. – Rebecca Solnit
  23. 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
  24. Disenchantment is the blessing of becoming yourself. – Rebecca Solnit
  25. Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone. – Rebecca Solnit
  26. Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be? – Rebecca Solnit
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  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
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  35. Gin a body meet a bodyComing thro’ the rye,Gin a body kiss a body-” Need a body cry? – Robert Burns
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  38. Casting my own eye down Fifth Avenue as my belly swelled, I would register with incredulity: Every one of these people came from a woman’s cunt. – Lionel Shriver
  39. Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal? – David Benioff
  40. Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator. – JI Packer

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