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““And you, fallen Wendy, eviscerated by the eternal recurrence of it all, hear Peter snarl at you for growing guilty and big and old...””

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I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a…

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If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely…

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“It seemed to me that half of life’s problems would be solved if one of us had a vagina.”

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“Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.”

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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step…

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What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.

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I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

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For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

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We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for…

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Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

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Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century…

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A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do…

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