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“The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.”

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Richard Powers is an American contemporary novelist, born on June 18, 1957. His works are known for their profound philosophical thinking, rich imagination, and unique narrative style. more

“Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you're free. But a few measures more, and the cloak of time closes back around you.”

Past Fall Sound Differences Simple Ears Solve Rhythm Now And Then Recalls Abiding Cloaks Forecasts

Book:Orfeo

Source: Orfeo

“The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.”

Humans Jobs Levels Creativity Taste Insane Appetite Manageable

Book:Orfeo

Source: Orfeo

“The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.”

Principles Repeats Composition

Book:Orfeo

Source: Orfeo

“Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.”

World Stills Waiting

Book:Orfeo

Source: Orfeo

“If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?”

Ifs World Years Three Projects Aliens Why Not Stakes Three Years Chunks

Author:Richard Powers

“The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.”

Writing Loneliness Stranger

Author:Richard Powers

“The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.”

Use Body Music Is

Book:The Time of Our Singing: A Novel

Source: The Time of Our Singing: A Novel

“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.”

Way Writing Trying Might Design Flower Constraints Dullness

Author:Richard Powers

“For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.”

Doors Possibility University Awful Shops Candy Closing

Author:Richard Powers

“All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.”

Knows World Way Different Brain Depends Make Sense Different Ways

Author:Richard Powers

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