“While offenders were in fear of losing a small part of their privilege, the victims were running the risk of losing everything.”
― Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
― Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
“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
“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
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“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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