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“The day would come when the last clean cause and effect would disappear into thickets of tangled networks.”
― Richard Powers, The Echo Maker

“Earth had two kinds of people: those who could do the math and follow the science, and those who were happier with their own truths. But in our hearts’ daily practice, whatever schools we went to, we all lived as if tomorrow would be a clone of now.”
― Richard Powers, Bewilderment

“There are four good things worth practicing. Being kind toward everything alive. Staying level and steady. Feeling happy for any creature anywhere that is happy. And remembering that any suffering is also yours.”
― Richard Powers, Bewilderment

“Life itself is a spectrum disorder, where each of us vibrated at some unique frequency in the continuous rainbow.”
― Richard Powers, Bewilderment

“Oddly enough, there’s no name in the DSM for the compulsion to diagnose people.”
― Richard Powers, Bewilderment

“the world is an experiment in inventing validity, and conviction is its only proof.”
― Richard Powers, Bewilderment

“Smartphones are miracles, and they’ve turned us into gods. But in one simple respect, they’re primitive: you can’t slam down the receiver.”
― Richard Powers, Bewilderment