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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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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 write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design. – Richard Powers

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design
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I was supposed to be womens lib, and now Id exceeded it and gone over into international politics. – Kate Millett

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Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable. – Charles Kennedy

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I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too. – Kevin J. Anderson

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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence. – Fareed Zakaria

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Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated. – Mason Cooley

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I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. – Charles de Gaulle

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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. – Thomas Huxley

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