"if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications."

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Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “Mysteries of Motion: A Novel”, p.33, Open Road Media

Hortense Calisher

#Technology Quotes #Ears Quotes #Deaf Quotes

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“Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.”
“Bush the Elder's stature as president grows with every passing year. He was the finest foreign policy president I've ever covered and a man who defied his party on tax increases while imposing budget restrictions on the Democrats.”
“Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?”
“You have to approach people with the truth and with love, and with what's right. I was determined to get the truth out because I knew that the truth would set me free.”
“Shyness is I-ness. Shyness is really wondering if you have other people's approval.”
“I work very physically as an actor. The biggest thing for me has been the challenge of how to be this person with the personal transformation that's going on for me physically... That hasn't been easy. It's been an awesome challenge for me... because so much of how I access character is through my body.”
“The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.”

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