"We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts."

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Source : "Jonathan Safran Foer: technology is diminishing us" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2016.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#Heart Quotes #Technology Quotes #Worry Quotes

“The worst injury I ever had was a stress fracture from running.”
“For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.”

Source : Geoffrey Chaucer (2006). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.451, Bantam Classics
“We are the measure of all things. And the beauty of our creation, of our art is proportional to the beauty of ourselves of our souls.”
“Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.”
“Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.”
“One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.”
“I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.”
“If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.”

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