“In that weekly ecstatic keeping of faith and bearing of witness, Delia fell in love with singing. Singing was something that might make sense of a person. Singing might make more sense of life than living had to start with.”
― Richard Powers, quote from The Time of Our Singing
“The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.”
― Richard Powers, quote from The Time of Our Singing
“Written music is like nothing in the world—an index of time. The idea is so bizarre, it’s almost miraculous: fixed instructions on how to recreate the simultaneous. How to be a flow, both motion and instant, both stream and cross section.”
― Richard Powers, quote from The Time of Our Singing
“The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival”
― Richard Powers, quote from The Time of Our Singing
“Silence: the motor drive of nothingness underneath all rhythm - threatened to last forever, a spell of sleep cast over the entire kingdom of listeners.”
― Richard Powers, quote from The Time of Our Singing
“All the while moving the idea of home three more modulations deeper into unspinning space”
― Richard Powers, quote from The Time of Our Singing
“But memory will forever replay this day in black and white, the slow voice-over pan of Movietone”
― Richard Powers, quote from The Time of Our Singing
“Our father knew more than any living person about the secret of time, except how to live in it. His time did not travel; it was a block of persisting nows.”
― Richard Powers, quote from The Time of Our Singing
“He stayed inside his perfect silence, hung on the stopped, forward edge of nowhere”
― Richard Powers, quote from The Time of Our Singing
“If the past is older than the present, then the future must be younger. And we must all go backward with each passing year.”
― Richard Powers, quote from The Time of Our Singing
“Feeling for the first time what it meant to kick open doors that kept closing, no matter how many legends had already passed through.”
― Richard Powers, quote from The Time of Our Singing
“We'd drifted too far to rely on the old boyhood telepathy anymore.”
― Richard Powers, quote from The Time of Our Singing
“Maybe they're not scared of different. Maybe they're scared of same. If we turn out to be too much like them, who can they be?”
― Richard Powers, quote from The Time of Our Singing
“A cracker kid in a designated white house in a black neighborhood off in fly- bitten Mississippi was about to let loose the secret beat of race music, forever blowing away the enriched-flour, box stepping public.”
― Richard Powers, quote from The Time of Our Singing
“What we want, finally, from friends, is that they have no more clue than we do.”
― Richard Powers, quote from The Time of Our Singing
Richard Powers
Born place: in Evanston, Illinois, The United States
Born date June 18, 1957
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“These women accept their beatings with a simplicity worthy of all praise, and far from considering themselves insulted, admire the strength and energy of the man who can administer such eloquent rebukes. In Russia, not only may a man beat his wife, but it is laid down in the catechism and taught all boys at the time of confirmation as necessary at least once a week, whether she has done anything or not, for the sake of her general health and happiness."
I thought I observed a tendency in the Man of Wrath rather to gloat over these castigations.
"Pray, my dear man," I said, pointing with my whip, "look at that baby moon so innocently peeping at us over the edge of the mist just behind that silver birch; and don't talk so much about women and things you don't understand. What is the use of your bothering about fists and whips and muscles and all the dreadful things invented for the confusion of obstreperous wives? You know you are a civilised husband, and a civilised husband is a creature who has ceased to be a man.
"And a civilised wife?" he asked, bringing his horse close up beside me and putting his arm round my waist, "has she ceased to be a woman?"
"I should think so indeed,--she is a goddess, and can never be worshipped and adored enough.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, quote from Elizabeth and Her German Garden
“So, yes, I will marry you. Someday. If you'll have me," he said modestly.
"Of course I will, you idiot," I said with a shriek, and threw myself into his arms.”
― Eilis O'Neal, quote from The False Princess
“made out a shape at the other end of the greenhouse,”
― Jonathan Kellerman, quote from When the Bough Breaks
“The first opportunity for this came right away. I had started a new weekly women”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife
“If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from Creatures of Light and Darkness
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