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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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I think that if the novels 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

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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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I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects. – Richard Powers

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Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. – Norman Podhoretz

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In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen – the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening. – Oren Peli

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Kindness and intelligence dont always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships. – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more youre forced back on your own imagination. – Stephen King

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