The Overstory Quotes by Richard Powers

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“The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.”

Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.

Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

“The best arguments in the world won’t change a single person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.” - Richard Powers

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“The best arguments in the world won’t change a single person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.” - Richard Powers

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A great truth comes over him: Trees fall with spectacular crashes. But planting is silent and growth is invisible.

Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

Trees fall with spectacular crashes. But planting is silent and growth is invisible.

Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

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The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story. The hair stands up all over her papery skin. That’s what he has tried to make. That’s why he let the state put him away for two lifetimes and still incriminated no one. He has traded his life for a fable that might light up the minds of st

Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

First there was nothing. Then there was everything.

Then, in a park above a western city after dark, the air is raining messages.

A woman sits on the ground, leaning against a pine. Its bark presses hard against her back, hard as life. Its needles scent the air and a force hums in the heart of the wood. Her ears tune down to the lowest frequencies. T

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