"Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction."

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Source : "In The Age of Distraction, We Need One Thing More Than Ever: Books" by Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2011.

David L. Ulin

#Reading Quotes #Landscape Quotes #Resistance Quotes

“Iâ€™ve worked nonstop for 31 years. Iâ€™ve counted down myself hundreds of cues for everything in each 90-minute show. Iâ€™ve never really taken an extended break, so Iâ€™d like to see what a vacation is really like,”
“The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.”
“The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know.”
“Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors.”
“... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.”
“I enjoy seeing anybody do good. I have no hard feelings.”
“American style is about confidence, independence, diversity and free expression.”
“There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.”

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