"The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology."

-- Marshall McLuhan

#Technology Quotes #Media Quotes #Messages Quotes

“Healing is the process of accepting all, then choosing best.”
“No cloud above, no earth below, A universe of sky and snow.”
“Now I want you to think that in life troubles will come, which seem as if they never would pass away. The night and storm look as if they would last forever; but the calm and the morning cannot be stayed; the storm in its very nature is transient. The effort of nature, as that of the human heart, ever is to return to its repose, for God is Peace.”
“You have family", Bob said. "You have a wife who hates you. Kids who are furious with you. A brother and sister who make you insane. And a nephew who used to be kind of a drip but apparently is not so much of a drip now. That's called family".”

Source : Elizabeth Strout (2013). “The Burgess Boys: A Novel”, p.303, Random House
“Everything to do with time is hideous.”

Source : Robert Aickman (2014). “Cold Hand in Mine”, p.203, Faber & Faber
“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
“I wanted to live among books.”
“when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.”

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