"Respondents had been so overwhelmed by their in-box they'd declared "e-mail bankruptcy."

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Source : Susan Maushart (2011). “The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale”, p.79, Penguin

Susan Maushart

#Mail Quotes #Overwhelmed Quotes #Boxes Quotes

“After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times.”
“Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.”
“"Balance" as a verb doesn't mean "stillness," but the constant act of making minor corrections from one side to another to bring one towards a center of stability.”
“Just so you know Gallagher Girl,' he whispered softly, 'I'm going to kiss you now.”
“You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.”
“The reason I'm here today, the reason I own a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and the reason I have a big log cabin and I got cars and all kinds of stuff is because I'm a writer and writers own everything. So you learn how to write.”
“Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.”

Source : Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. October 24, 2004.
“I've been inspired by a shitload of people in my life so if there's ever anybody that I can inspire, to me that's a huge gift. To be able to turn that back around.”

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