"Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of family saga and a ride up an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable. The narratorâ€™s mother carries her child up the stairs and the reader follows, for days. But World War I passes in a paragraph. I needed 125 pages to get from Labor Day to Christmas vacation. In six more words, hereâ€™s spring."

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Source : Richard Powers (2009). “Generosity: An Enhancement”, p.166, Macmillan

Richard Powers

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Spring Quotes

“I'm sitting here watching Hannah Montana, so I'm not going to annihilate 4.3 million Pakistanis without hearing directly from someone whose authority I recognize!”
“Anticipation makes pleasure more intense”

Source : Iris Johansen (2011). “An Eve Duncan Collection From Iris Johansen: Quicksand, Blood Game, Eight Days to Live, and Chasing the Night”, p.101, Macmillan
“Those who write clearly have readers.”
“Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president.”
“The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.”
“Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing.”
“The one significant change is in fact the second significant change”
“I was sad to leave 'Downton,' but I will always remember it fondly, as they did me a lot of favours. I owe them a lot.”

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