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I am entirely alone. The emptiness makes a sound that takes in everything.
“I think the literary scholar Brian Boyd is right to wonder if overconsuming in a world awash with junk story could lead to something like a “mental diabetes epidemic.”
― The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
― The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
“With bread and wine you can walk your road.”
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“All great art comes from a sense of outrage.”
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“This bottom-up overturning was also not in anyone’s 20-year vision. No web phenomenon has been more confounding”
― The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
― The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
“I never react to events in the outside world; I always react to the sensations in my own body. (...) Even when we think we react to what another person has done, to President Trump's latest tweet, or to a distant childhood memory, the truth is we always react to our immediate bodily sensations. If we are outraged that somebody insulted our nation or our god, what makes the insult unbearable is the burning sensations in the pit of our stomach and the band of pain that grips our heart. Our nation feels nothing, but our body really hurts.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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