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Jennifer Michael Hecht

Jennifer Michael Hecht Quotes

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Jennifer Michael Hecht

Birthname

AKA: Jennifer Hecht

Birthday: November 23, 1965

Birthplace: Glen Cove, New York, United States

Educated At: Columbia University, Adelphi University

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Historian, Author, Philosopher, Writer, Poet

Religion: Atheism

Total quotes: 2

“Sometimes I think we could have gone on.
All of us. Trying. Forever.

But they didn't fill the desert with pyramids.
They just built some.
Some.”

— Jennifer Michael Hecht, On the Strength of All Conviction and the Stamina of Love

Tagged: Poetry

“Prayer is based on the remote possibility that someone is actually listening; but so is a lot of conversation. If the former seems far-fetched, consider the latter: even if someone is listening to your story, and really hearing, that person will disappear from existence in the blink of a cosmic eye, so why bother to tell this perhaps illusory and possibly un-listening person something he or she is unlikely to truly understand, just before the two of you blip back out of existence? We like to talk to people who answer us, intelligently if possible, but we do talk without needing response or expecting comprehension. Sometimes, the event is the word, the act of speaking. Once we pull that apart a bit, the action of talking becomes more important than the question of whether the talking is working--because we know, going in, that the talking is not working. That said, one might as well pray.”

— Jennifer Michael Hecht, Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson

Tagged: prayer, Conversation, talking

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