Quote by Richard Powers
This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, o

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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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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Science
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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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Whats going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. Were getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when youre in charge. – Lindsey Graham

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Politics

The more you observe politics, the more youve got to admit that each party is worse than the other. – Will Rogers

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Politics

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. – Marshall McLuhan

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Politics

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. – P. J. ORourke

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Politics

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In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel. – Robert Klein

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The whole recorded history of man is strewn with the wreckage of the great civilizations which have crumbled under price controls; and in forty centuries of human experience, there has never been – Irving S. Olds

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Inflation

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. – William Wordsworth

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