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“What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.”
-- Richard Powers

#States #Equal #Sentences
“Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.”
-- Richard Powers

#Book #Reading #Thought Provoking
“I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.”
-- Richard Powers

#Bigs #Big Picture
“Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.”
-- Richard Powers

#Self #Evil #Refusal
“Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even know that we are infected.”
-- Richard Powers

#Long #Bugs #Viruses
“Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of family saga and a ride up an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable. The narratorâ€™s mother carries her child up the stairs and the reader follows, for days. But World War I passes in a paragraph. I needed 125 pages to get from Labor Day to Christmas vacation. In six more words, hereâ€™s spring.”
-- Richard Powers

#Mother #Children #Spring
“When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.”
-- Richard Powers

#Looks #Harder

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