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An unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.

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I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails.
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Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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“The Diagnosis” is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it… there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecure about it for several years.
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.
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A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.
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Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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Continents of memory had been lost.
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Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.
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