"So how, children, does the brain, which lives……" — Anthony Doerr

"So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?"

30 Quotes by Anthony Doerr

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My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say,…
I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my…
Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care…
Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might…
Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.
Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new…
We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add…
I used to think...that I had to be careful with how much I lived. As if life was a pocketful…
The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This…
I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of…
My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

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