Top Modern Life Quotes
Certainly we can say that the pace of modern life, increased and supported by our technology in general and our personal electronics in particular, has resulted in a short attention span and an addict...
Arthur Rosenfeld
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being, complicated, critical thinking, daoism, emotion, feeling, hectic, life, meditation, modern life
We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We dro...
Anthon St. Maarten
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buying, consumer culture, consumerism, consumption, deprivation, desert, despair, emptiness, excess, happiness
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of...
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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characters, creative writing, life, meaningless, meaninglessness, modern life, paralyzed, water, write, writing