"When two human beings get together, they're co-present, there is built into it a certain responsibility we have for each other, and when people are co-present in family relationships and other relationships, that responsibility is there. You can't just turn off a person. On the Internet, you can."

-- Neil Postman

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“I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the setting; a juvenile correctional facility located in the Texas desert. Then I slowly make up the story, and rewrite it several times, and each time I rewrite it, I get new ideas, and change the old ideas around.”
“Sex is not only the basis of life, it is the reason for life.”
“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.”
“When I was a kid, I was super shy.”
“The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.”

Source : Dorothy Day (2012). “All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day”, p.326, Image
“I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.”
“The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but it isn't political. It really was important for me to not have a political agenda at all, because I have a hard time stomaching any political fiction that feels message-y.”
“Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.”

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