"Twitter is crack for media addicts,"

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Source : "Stop the World" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. January 29, 2010.

George Packer

#Media Quotes #Cracks Quotes #Addict Quotes

“If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich...”
“Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.”
“At Linfox we have zero tolerance. If any alcohol or drugs are found in any drivers' blood, they are instantly dismissed.”
“Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.”
“Looking to the material world for the satisfaction of our inner needs is the source of much fear. All fear is, in essence, fear of the future. We are afraid of things that have not yet happened, but which if they did might bring us pain, suffering, or some other discomfort - or stand in the way of some future contentment. And we are afraid that circumstances that are already causing us displeasure may continue in the future.”
“All I can say is, death is a part of life.”

Source : IGN Interview, www.ign.com. September 30, 2005.
“A poet is a musician who can't sing.”
“In politics evils should be remedied not revenged.”

Source : Napoleon III (emperor of the French.) (1859). “Napoleonic ideas. Des idées napoléoniennes, tr. by J.A. Dorr”, p.41

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