4 Quotes by Wells Tower

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    If you were an animal, what would you be?" I wrote, "A bumblebee trying to fuck a marble.

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    Much time and money has gone into computer chess programs, and so far, no one’s figured out how to crack the game, which I think speaks to chess’s complexity.

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    With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff.

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    The loveliness of the day was enough to knock you down. Swallows rioted above the calm green lid of the lake. Birch trees gleamed like filaments among the dark evergreens. No planes disturbed the sky. I felt dead to it, though I did take a kind of comfort that all of this beauty was out here, persisting like mad, whether you hearkened to it or not.

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