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Richard Powers Quote: “CHRISTMAS EVE: There’s a fire blazing in the fireplace, food enough for five thousand, and a new TV as big as Wyoming tuned to a football game no one cares about.”

151. “CHRISTMAS EVE: There’s a fire blazing in the fireplace, food enough for five thousand, and a new TV as big as Wyoming tuned to a football game no one cares about.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “She sat on her porch those first nights, wrapped in the brackish tidal air. The future’s breeze split across her face and joined up again behind her. She felt herself a spinster whose sudden new suitor must be either sadistic, blind, or a confused fortune hunter. She’d read all the cautionary fairy tales and knew the one inevitable outcome. Still, she consented to this courtship, and even decided to court it back.”

152. “She sat on her porch those first nights, wrapped in the brackish tidal air. The future’s breeze split across her face and joined up again behind her. She felt herself a spinster whose sudden new suitor must be either sadistic, blind, or a confused fortune hunter. She’d read all the cautionary fairy tales and knew the one inevitable outcome. Still, she consented to this courtship, and even decided to court it back.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “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.”

153. “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.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “The confirmation of others: a sickness the entire race will die of.”

154. “The confirmation of others: a sickness the entire race will die of.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “A good answer must be reinvented many times, from scratch.”

155. “A good answer must be reinvented many times, from scratch.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “Now they need only learn what life wants from humans.”

156. “Now they need only learn what life wants from humans.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “In 25 years of writing novels, I’ve never had anything that felt like writer’s block.”

157. “In 25 years of writing novels, I’ve never had anything that felt like writer’s block.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “In a world of perfect utility, we, too, will be forced to vanish.”

158. “In a world of perfect utility, we, too, will be forced to vanish.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “Define a feather when condemned to the wind. Say how the shaft tapers, straining to be weightless. Describe what the vanes do on the air, how they luff and ruffle and flute, how the barbs somersault on the downward curve of their resisting ride.”

159. “Define a feather when condemned to the wind. Say how the shaft tapers, straining to be weightless. Describe what the vanes do on the air, how they luff and ruffle and flute, how the barbs somersault on the downward curve of their resisting ride.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “What?” he asks the tree. “What? ” The tree feels no need to reply.”

160. “What?” he asks the tree. “What? ” The tree feels no need to reply.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.”

161. “For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “I’d like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I’m doing. That’s one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.”

162. “I’d like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I’m doing. That’s one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival.”

163. “The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “The loss of a great library to fire is a tragedy. But the surreptitious introduction of thousands of untraceable errors into reliable books, errors picked up and distributed endlessly by tireless researchers, is a nightmare beyond measure.”

164. “The loss of a great library to fire is a tragedy. But the surreptitious introduction of thousands of untraceable errors into reliable books, errors picked up and distributed endlessly by tireless researchers, is a nightmare beyond measure.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.”

165. “All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “She saw how the mind makes forever, in order to store the things it had already lost.”

166. “She saw how the mind makes forever, in order to store the things it had already lost.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “She becomes her father’s star and only pupil for the simple reason that she alone, of all the family, sees what he knows: plants are willful and crafty and after something, just like people.”

167. “She becomes her father’s star and only pupil for the simple reason that she alone, of all the family, sees what he knows: plants are willful and crafty and after something, just like people.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “Written music is like nothing in the world – an index of time. The idea is so bizarre, it’s almost miraculous: fixed instructions on how to recreate the simultaneous. How to be a flow, both motion and instant, both stream and cross section.”

168. “Written music is like nothing in the world – an index of time. The idea is so bizarre, it’s almost miraculous: fixed instructions on how to recreate the simultaneous. How to be a flow, both motion and instant, both stream and cross section.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them. The waving of the boughs in the storm, is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise, and yet is not unknown. Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right.”

169. “The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them. The waving of the boughs in the storm, is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise, and yet is not unknown. Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “There was nothing more pressing to do all day, every day, except think about the question that his whole life had failed to answer: How did music trick the body into thinking it had a soul?”

170. “There was nothing more pressing to do all day, every day, except think about the question that his whole life had failed to answer: How did music trick the body into thinking it had a soul?”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “Love was long over, but what was lost to him he still loved so harshly that it prevented him from listening even to its trace.”

171. “Love was long over, but what was lost to him he still loved so harshly that it prevented him from listening even to its trace.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “There’s a Chinese saying. ‘When is the best time to plan a tree? Twenty years ago.”

172. “There’s a Chinese saying. ‘When is the best time to plan a tree? Twenty years ago.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “There is no safety. There is only forgetfulness.”

173. “There is no safety. There is only forgetfulness.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “Once you’ve bought a novel in your pajamas, there’s no turning back.”

174. “Once you’ve bought a novel in your pajamas, there’s no turning back.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “What’s wrong with How Trees Will Save the World? Trees won’t save the world?” “I’m sure they will. After the world shrugs us off.”

175. “What’s wrong with How Trees Will Save the World? Trees won’t save the world?” “I’m sure they will. After the world shrugs us off.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “Time didn’t age you; memory did.”

176. “Time didn’t age you; memory did.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “I read then, everything I could lay hands on. Reading was my virgin continent. I read instantly upon awakening, and was still at it well past the hour that consciousness shut down. I read for nothing, for a pleasure difficult to describe and impossible afterward to recover.”

177. “I read then, everything I could lay hands on. Reading was my virgin continent. I read instantly upon awakening, and was still at it well past the hour that consciousness shut down. I read for nothing, for a pleasure difficult to describe and impossible afterward to recover.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “She lies awake at night, staring upward, remembering being right next to the only discovery that matters. Life was whispering instructions to her, and she failed to write them down.”

178. “She lies awake at night, staring upward, remembering being right next to the only discovery that matters. Life was whispering instructions to her, and she failed to write them down.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “Trees give it all away, don’t they?”

179. “Trees give it all away, don’t they?”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.”

180. “The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “Dad, I would very much like to plunge off the edge of commonsense existence, at your expense, and become certifiably unemployable.”

181. “Dad, I would very much like to plunge off the edge of commonsense existence, at your expense, and become certifiably unemployable.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “Way too late in life, Els learned that the time to concentrate yourself was right before sunrise.”

182. “Way too late in life, Els learned that the time to concentrate yourself was right before sunrise.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “Love for trees pours out of her – the grace of them, their supple experimentation, the constant variety and surprise. These slow, deliberate creatures with their elaborate vocabularies, each distinctive, shaping each other, breeding birds, sinking carbon, purifying water, filtering poisons from the ground, stabilizing the micro-climate. Join enough living things together, through the air and underground, and you wind up with something that has intentions.”

183. “Love for trees pours out of her – the grace of them, their supple experimentation, the constant variety and surprise. These slow, deliberate creatures with their elaborate vocabularies, each distinctive, shaping each other, breeding birds, sinking carbon, purifying water, filtering poisons from the ground, stabilizing the micro-climate. Join enough living things together, through the air and underground, and you wind up with something that has intentions.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “When the people come for you, your choice is already made. All you can do is lift up the light God sets in your hand. That light don’t belong to you anyway. It’s not yours to hide.”

184. “When the people come for you, your choice is already made. All you can do is lift up the light God sets in your hand. That light don’t belong to you anyway. It’s not yours to hide.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “How much they knew, these new children. How concentrated their knowledge of every mechanism, except for life.”

185. “How much they knew, these new children. How concentrated their knowledge of every mechanism, except for life.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “Listen deep down: most life happens on scales a million times smaller than ours.”

186. “Listen deep down: most life happens on scales a million times smaller than ours.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “Music wasn’t about learning how to love. It was about learning what to disown and when to disown it. Even the most magnificent piece would end up as collateral damage in the endless war over taste.”

187. “Music wasn’t about learning how to love. It was about learning what to disown and when to disown it. Even the most magnificent piece would end up as collateral damage in the endless war over taste.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “The trees have vanished and the town forgets. But not the land.”

188. “The trees have vanished and the town forgets. But not the land.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “I think that if the novel’s task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life – technology and science.”

189. “I think that if the novel’s task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life – technology and science.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “And the goal of the game will be to figure out what the new and desperate world wants from you.”

190. “And the goal of the game will be to figure out what the new and desperate world wants from you.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “I keep a quotes journal – of every sentence that I’ve wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.”

191. “I keep a quotes journal – of every sentence that I’ve wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “I remain one of those unreformable suckers who want to hear, just hear from time to time, even if the point of hearing has long since disappeared.”

192. “I remain one of those unreformable suckers who want to hear, just hear from time to time, even if the point of hearing has long since disappeared.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “A guy in a dirty suit jacket and shorts, his hair bound up in a bungee cord, cuts behind her on the sidewalk, talking out loud: voices or cell phone – choose your schizophrenia.”

193. “A guy in a dirty suit jacket and shorts, his hair bound up in a bungee cord, cuts behind her on the sidewalk, talking out loud: voices or cell phone – choose your schizophrenia.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “Chance was just an order that you hadn’t yet perceived.”

194. “Chance was just an order that you hadn’t yet perceived.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “Something in those jittery black-and-golden scraps recalled her sight’s desire. So it always went, with life and its paler imitations.”

195. “Something in those jittery black-and-golden scraps recalled her sight’s desire. So it always went, with life and its paler imitations.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “Tagore said, Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

196. “Tagore said, Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “What frightens people most will one day turn to wonder. And then people will do what four billion years have shaped them to do: stop and see just what it is they’re seeing.”

197. “What frightens people most will one day turn to wonder. And then people will do what four billion years have shaped them to do: stop and see just what it is they’re seeing.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “What we want, finally, from friends, is that they have no more clue than we do.”

198. “What we want, finally, from friends, is that they have no more clue than we do.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom. Every one of us is an experiment, and we don’t even know what the experiment is testing. My wife would have known how to talk to the doctors. Nobody’s perfect, she liked to say. But, man, we all fall short so beautifully.”

199. “Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom. Every one of us is an experiment, and we don’t even know what the experiment is testing. My wife would have known how to talk to the doctors. Nobody’s perfect, she liked to say. But, man, we all fall short so beautifully.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “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.”

200. “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.”

— Richard Powers

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