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I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, bu

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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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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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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The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design. – Kenneth R. Miller

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Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. Its a bit like coming up with a spectacular roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid foundation and supporting structure. – Linwood Barclay

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