“You know, the past and the future are already taking place somewhere else. Dangerous to let the present do that, too.”
— Marlon James, The Disappearers
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Reacting to the latest random stimului
‘It’s like the internet, or cable TV – there’s never any center, there’s no communal agreement, there’s just a trillion little bits of distracting noise. We can never sit down and have any kind of sustained conversation, it’s all just cheap trash and shitty development. All the real things, the authentic things, the honest things are dying off. Intellectually and culturally, we just bounce around like random billiard balls, reacting to the latest random stumuli.’
— Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
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A good library
My alma mater was books, a good library – I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
— Malcolm X