"Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read……" — Karen Thompson Walker
"Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting."
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38 Quotes by Karen Thompson Walker
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Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted.
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Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination ... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when…
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But the past is long, and the future is short.
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I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the…
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Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.
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I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back.…
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I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are…
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Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as…
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How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived…
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Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not love--it's…
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Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.
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On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted…
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it.…
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the…
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The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.
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Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is…
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I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
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Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most…
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There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder:…
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