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Maya Angelou
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
Maya Angelou

Richard Powers
“Civilized yards are all alike. Every wild yard is wild in its own way.”
Richard Powers, The Overstory

Haruki Murakami
“As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the line it all changed. Living turned me into nothing. Weird... People are born in order to live, right? But the longer I've lived, the more I've lost what's inside me --- and ended up empty. And I bet the longer I live, the emptier, the more worthless I'll become. Something's wrong with this picture. Life isn't supposed to turn out like this! Isn't it possible to shift direction, to change where I'm headed?”
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Richard Powers
“To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one, and to mistake life for something huge with two legs. No: life is mobilized on a vastly larger scale, and the world is failing precisely because no novel can make the contest for the world seem as compelling as the struggles between a few lost people.”
Richard Powers, The Overstory

Richard Powers
“Soon his eyes close on their own accord, and he's swept back into sleep, that nightly place of plantlike deliverance.”
Richard Powers, The Overstory

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