Quote by Richard Powers
I think that if the novels task is to describe where we find ourse

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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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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Imagination
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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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Politics
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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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Technology
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Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science. – William Jennings Bryan

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You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. – Heinrich Heine

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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. – George Santayana

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I didnt understand how you could be an actor if you didnt also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences. – Brit Marling

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