10 thought-provoking quotes by richard powers
- What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.
- Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it’s one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don’t even know that we are infected.
- 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.
- The morning was glorious, one of those crystalline, dry, blue, fall days when the temperature hovers right at anticipation.
- Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.
- The thing about music was that you never knew the shape of anyone’s desire.
- He will love this music to death. In a few more years, he’ll snort at its sentiment and mock its stirring progressions. Once you’ve loved like that, the only safe haven is resentment.
- Music wasn’t about learning how to love. It was about learning what to disown and when to disown it. Even the most magnificent piece would end up as collateral damage in the endless war over taste.
- Still, history is the long process of outsourcing human ability in order to leverage more of it.
- Be grateful for anything that still cuts. Dissonance is a beauty that familiarity hasn’t destroyed yet.
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