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I know a memory from reality, even if I grow more attached to my memories than to reality with each day.
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Richard Powers
No one sees trees. We see fruit, we see nuts, we see wood, we see shade. We see ornaments or pretty fall foliage. Obstacles blocking the road or wrecking the ski slope. Dark, threatening places that must be cleared. We see branches about to crush our roof. We see a cash crop. But trees - trees are invisible.
Richard Powers, The Overstory

Richard Powers
“We’re cashing in a billion years of planetary savings bonds and blowing it on assorted bling.”
Richard Powers, The Overstory

Richard Powers
“You have given me a thing I could never have imagined, before I knew you. It's like I had the word "book," and you put one in my hands. I had the world "game," and you taught me how to play. I had the word "life," and then you came along and said, "Oh! You mean this.”
Richard Powers, The Overstory

Richard Powers
“Someday you’ll need to take down a worn-out volume and flip to that passage on the lower right-hand face, ten pages from the end, that fills you with such sweet and vicious pain.”
Richard Powers, The Overstory

Kiese Laymon
“I'd fallen in love with provoking white folk, which really meant I'd fallen in love with begging white folk to free us by demanding that they radically love themselves more.”
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