Richard Powers
Novelist
1957-06-18
Books by Richard Powers
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The Overstory
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Bewilderment
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Quotes by Richard Powers
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Our father knew more than any living person about the secret of time, except how to live in it. His time did not travel; it was a block of persisting nows.
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The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival
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We will not sleep, but will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. You'll see me again. But you'll never know when. Hear that shifting, ambiguous rhythm, that promise of all things possible, and the ear is on its way to being free.
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I don't know any sad songs. Except for the funny ones.
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I don't know any sad songs. Except for the funny ones.
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We will not sleep, but will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. You'll see me again. But you'll never know when. Hear that shifting, ambiguous rhythm, that promise of all things possible, and the ear is on its way to being free.
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Our father knew more than any living person about the secret of time, except how to live in it. His time did not travel; it was a block of persisting nows.
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The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival
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Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.
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My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.
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The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.
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We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.
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A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.
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Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.
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