"We choose mania over boredom every time."

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Source : James Gleick (2000). “Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything”, Vintage

James Gleick

#Boredom Quotes #Mania Quotes

“How much did Jim Morrison know?”
“We do not support an automatic pathway to citizenship.”
“Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives.”
“Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow-- it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it”
“We must not only be patient with others, infinitely patient, but also with our own poor selves.”
“Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.”
“What we get to think and know about the world is in the hands of a very few... A truly informed public is antithetical to the interests of modern consumer capital.”
“I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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