“We sit in a silence it’s hard not to scribble in with chat.”
Mary Karr
more info“The Internet culture may produce better conversationalists, but the literary culture still produces better students…It could be that the real debate will not be books versus the Internet but how to build an Internet counterculture that will better attract people to serious learning.”
David Brooks
more infosource: “The Medium is the Medium,” The New York Times, July 8, 2010.
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category: book, conversation, education, Internet, literature, student
medium: Op-Ed
“Try not to speak.”
Sir Arthur John Gielgud
more infosource: Arthur, Orion Pictures (1981)
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category: conversation, film quotes, listen, silence, speak, talk
medium: film
notes: Arthur was written and directed by Steven Gordon
“There is a time for many words and there is a time for sleep.”
Homer
more infosource: The Odyssey (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980), 136.
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category: conversation, silence, sleep, tired, words
medium: epic poetry
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