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His hand goes out, gesturing toward the conifers. It amazes me how much they say, when you let them. They're not that hard to hear. The (other) man chuckles. We've been trying to tell you that since 1492.
— Richard Powers The Overstory
Tags: science, environment

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Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.
— Richard Powers
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Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.
— Richard Powers
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My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.
— Richard Powers
Tags: invisible, reach, always, technology
If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?
— Richard Powers
Tags: go, world, yourself, you
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.
— Richard Powers
Tags: reading, time, silence, you
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