The Time of Our Singing
Richard Powers
Top 10 Best Quotes
“In that weekly ecstatic keeping of faith and bearing of witness, Delia fell in love with singing. Singing was something that might make sense of a person. Singing might make more sense of life than living had to start with.”
“Written music is like nothing in the world—an index of time. The idea is so bizarre, it’s almost miraculous: fixed instructions on how to recreate the simultaneous. How to be a flow, both motion and instant, both stream and cross section.”
“The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival”
“The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.”
“Silence: the motor drive of nothingness underneath all rhythm - threatened to last forever, a spell of sleep cast over the entire kingdom of listeners.”
“He stayed inside his perfect silence, hung on the stopped, forward edge of nowhere”
“When the people come for you, your choice is already made. All you can do is lift up the light God sets in your hand. That light don’t belong to you anyway. It’s not yours to hide.”
“The bird and the fish may fall in love but where will they build their nest?”
“What we want, finally, from friends, is that they have no more clue than we do.”
“We'd drifted too far to rely on the old boyhood telepathy anymore.”
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Book Keywords:
talent, boyhood, nowhere, silence, survival, friendship, sleep, growing-up, vicious, fame, listen, world, recognition
