"It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the President had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone. It's a larger anthropological shift in my mind than even the tattoo age in the United States."

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Source : Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2012.

Padgett Powell

#Tattoo Quotes #Communication Quotes #Phones Quotes

“Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.”

Source : Robin Hobb (2002). “Royal Assassin: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.647, Spectra
“Art is a car, kitsch is a horse.”
“A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.”

Source : George Jean Nathan (1943). “Beware of Parents: A Bachelor's Book for Children”
“There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.”
“To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.”
“In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end.”

Source : Daniel Wallace (1999). “Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions”, Penguin Group USA
“The Compromise of 1850 provided that the prohibition of slavery should be left up to the individual States, thus thwarting the Canaanites in their attempts to make this problem an excuse for federal intervention and a cause of war between the States.”
“Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut...”

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