“ But now we live in a time and in a culture when mystery tends to mean something more answerable, it means a crime novel, a thriller, a drama on TV, usually one where we'll find out - and where the who… Ali Smith
“ He laid there realizing how thoroughly he'd removed himself from the world or obligations, how stupidly independent he'd become: he needed no one, knew no one, was not a part of anyone's life. He'd so… A.M. Homes
“ The stories we read in books, what's presented to us as being interesting - they have very little to do with real life as it's lived today. I'm not talking about straight-up escapism, your vampires, s… Paul Murray
“ ...we spend more time gazing at luminous screens than into the eyes of our loved ones. Charlie Brooker
“ What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh.[] Michael Chabon
“ One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult. Jaron Lanier
“ We are just too blinded by the phrase, "grow old together" and learning its meaning from hopeless movies and novels that glorify undying love and unbelievable understanding. Don't you think? Reality i… Mansi Laus Deo
“ Perhaps we now need to engineer scarcity in our communications, in our interactions, and in the things we consume. Otherwise our lives become like a Morse code transmission that's lacking breaks - a s… Michael Harris
“ There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to have gone. Life's so serious now. Maybe it's just because I'm with an older gan… Douglas Coupland
“ In our consumer culture, we always want the next best thing: the latest, the newest, the youngest. Failing that, we at least want more: more intensity, more variety, more stimulation. We seek instant… Esther Perel
“ Tech made all things possible, and therefore mandatory. Not to mention the fact that carrying around all this smartphone in your purse or pocket had become such a fantastic drag. Cranial implant was s… Stanley Bing
“ In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the… Milan Kundera
“ Every technology will alienate you from some part of your life. That is its job. Your job is to notice. First notice the difference. And then, every time, choose. Michael Harris
“ The multiplication of technologies in the name of efficiency is actually eradicating free time by making it possible to maximize the time and place for production and minimize the unstructured travel… Rebecca Solnit
“ There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-important images to help us identify them. Alain de Botton
“ I’m sorry to pull you out of your classes, but your adviser understands,” Kitteredge said. “He’s a friend of the family.”So that’s it, Neal thought. You bought me; you own me. Don Winslow
