"The six and one-fourth hours' television watching (the American average per day) which non-reading children do is what is called alpha-level learning. The mind needn't make any pictures since the pictures are provided, so the mind cuts current as low as it can."

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Source : Carol Bly (1990). “The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature”

Carol Bly

#Children Quotes #Reading Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance.”
“Guys aren't threatening. Other girls are the competition. You are usually what they're fighting over.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.”
“She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air. (last lines)”
“At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough. I can't do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morning's work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine.”
“We know grooming is important for people. To get their hair done, to get makeup and things like that - that makes a person feel better.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I guess 35 years ago, I thought we had more of a democracy than we actually do. Majority support doesn't help unless the majority is active and votes - but the opposition minority votes a much greater proportion, so we often lose by a narrow margin.”
“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution”

Source : "Here Comes Clay Shirky". Interview with Parul Sehgal, www.publishersweekly.com. June 21, 2010.

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