- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Desperate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.
- Average American
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- Nov 07, 2020
The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.
- Each Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hello Kitty will never speak.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with. Of course, as the years go on, we come to find that we become our parents.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, essentially. I think, 'What would I like to spend five years really thinking about? What could I gain from thinking about for five years?'
- Canada
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly, I think Canada is many years ahead of the curve and still the great global pioneer.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be my fondest wish.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time I stepped onto the rooftop of the Potala Palace in Lhasa in 1985, I felt, as never before or since, as if I was stepping onto the rooftop of my being: onto some dimension of consciousness that I'd never visited before.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020