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As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream.
Rebecca Solnit
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Rebecca Solnit
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 26
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I walk wherever my errands take me.
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You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found.
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There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.
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I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.
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