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For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to walk, you're some place that's already interesting. You're not just between places. Things are happening.

Rebecca Solnit

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Rebecca Solnit
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 26
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