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Never forget the power of silence, the massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Lance Morrow

The contemplation of anything intelligent — it need not be writing — helps the mind through the black hours. Mozart, for example; music light bright ice water, or say, the memory of the serene Palladian lines of Jefferson's Monticello. These things realign the mind and teach it not to be petty. All honest thought is a form of prayer.

Lance Morrow

Science and religion were apples and oranges. So the pact said: render unto apples the things that are Caesar's, and unto oranges the things that are God's. Just as the Maya kept two calendars, one profane and one priestly, so Western science and religion fell into two different conceptions of the universe, two different vocabularies.

Lance Morrow

Lance Morrow

Lance Morrow

Born: September 21, 1939

Died: November 29, 2024 (aged 85)

Bio: Lance Morrow was an American essayist and writer, chiefly for Time Magazine, as well as the author of several books. He won the 1981 National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism and was a finalist for the same award in 1991.

Known for:

Evil: An Investigation (2003)
Heart: A Memoir (1995)
Second Drafts of History (2006)
The Chief: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons (1984)

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