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“We're living in the age of mass hypnotism. As long as we keep clapping our hands and believing, the captains of industry will take care of us.”
― Richard Powers, The Echo Maker

“Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

“The tunnels of our lives connect, coming to daylight at the oddest moments, and then plunge us into the dark again. We return to the lives of those who have gone before us, a perplexing möbius strip until we come home, eventually, to ourselves.”
― Colum McCann, TransAtlantic

“Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.”
― Colum McCann, Zoli