"Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom."

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Source : "Out of Print" by Eric Alterman, www.newyorker.com. March 31, 2008.

Eric Alterman

#Wiping Out Quotes #Looks Quotes #Trends Quotes

“Millions of people are joined in the knowledge that writing brings insight and calm in the same way that prayer, meditation, or a long walk in the woods does. They have discovered that writing allows the racing mind to move at the pace of pen and paper or the pace of typing on the waiting screen - that journal writing is a spiritual practice.”
“From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street.”
“Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.”

Source : William Ian Beardmore Beveridge (1950). “The Art of Scientific Investigation”
“To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that's everything.”
“I don't get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me.”
“America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.”
“Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.”

Source : Susan Vreeland (2004). “The Forest Lover”, p.172, Penguin
“Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.”

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