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Tom Standage
“Coffeehouses were centers of self-education, literary and philosophical speculation, commercial innovation, and, in some cases, political fermentation. But above all they were clearinghouses for news and gossip, linked by the circulation of customers, publications, and information from one establishment to the next. Collectively, Europe's coffeehouses functioned as the Internet of the Age of Reason.”
Tom Standage, A History of the World in 6 Glasses

Neil Postman
“In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau knew. Or so one may surmise. It is alleged that upon being told that through the telegraph a man in Maine could instantly send a message to a man in Texas, Thoreau asked, "But what do they have to say to each other?" In asking this question, to which no serious interest was paid, Thoreau was directing attention to the psychological and social meaning of the telegraph, and in particular to its capacity to change the character of information -- from the personal and regional to the impersonal and global.”
Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Sometimes she worried that she was too happy. . . And her joy would become a restless thing, flapping its wings inside her, as though looking for an opening to fly away.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
tags: joy, unease

Katherine Boo
“At the heart of her bad nature, like many bad natures, was probably envy. And at the heart of envy was possibly hope - that the good fortune of others might one day be hers”
Katherine Boo
tags: envy, hope

Anna Deavere Smith
“Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth.”
Anna Deavere Smith, Letters to a Young Artist

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