“When language and thought atrophy, when complexity wanes and everything becomes more and more the same, we run great risks in society politic-- whether from extremists in a religion or a political organization or, less obviously, from advertisers.”
― Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf, Harper
― Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf, Harper
“Friendship,” Marx said, “is kind of like having a Tamagotchi.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“My father was fond of saying 'If you own too many possessions sooner or later they start owning you.”
― Our Endless Numbered Days
― Our Endless Numbered Days
“The road to recovery is not linear. It’s not straight. It’s a bumpy path, with lots of twists and turns. But you’re on the right track.”
― Queenie
― Queenie
“the powerful nature of what entering the lives of others can mean for our own lives. Drama makes more visible what each of us does when we pass over in our deepest, most immersive forms of reading. We welcome the Other as a guest within ourselves, and sometimes we become Other. For a moment in time we leave ourselves; and when we return, sometimes expanded and strengthened, we are changed both intellectually and emotionally.”
― Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
― Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
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