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Our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We’ve become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.

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In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
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Birth Circle Every Handshake Kiss Precise Repeat Time Word World
The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
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Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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Alone Each Get Person Stuck Time
It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.
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Glance Meaning Moment Speak Spoken World
As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not.
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Contemporary Do Intervene God Know Law Long Physical Science Universe Violate Way
And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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Consequence Effect Future Little Presence Present Weight
You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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Breathe Character Idea Just Live Mouthpiece Own
Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.
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I believe that we need to slow down.
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Believe Down Need Slow
I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
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