Richard Powers Quotes
I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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The increasing segregation we have in our country geographically and culturally has led to these pretty monolithic views of different classes of people, and because of that, we've lost a certain amount of cultural cohesion.
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Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.
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Those who adhere to the ideology of rejecting Israel’s right to exist, they might as well reject the earth beneath them or the sky above, because Israel is not going anywhere.
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Of all the films I've worked on, that is among my favorites. It's an incredibly beautiful film. (Levinson) really captures what it means to be in a family and the ups and downs of that. He maps out beautifully how families moved from Eastern Europe to the United States and how they got broken up by the modern age.
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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.
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Listen to me brother! bring the
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To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!
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Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.
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There's nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don't make the same ones. We don't want to duplicate them.
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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls.
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Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by promise. Just as if a prince should say to me, "Come to me in my castle, and I will give you a hundred florins." I do a work, certainly, in going to the castle, but the gift is not given me as the reward of my work in going, but because the prince promised it to me.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.
