Quote by Richard Powers
The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that were disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning. – Richard Powers

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This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world. – Richard Powers

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What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work. – 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

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. – Helen Rowland

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I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be. – Chris Brown

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The power of imagination makes us infinite. – John Muir

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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. – Samuel Johnson

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