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Phones are distracting. The internet is distracting.The way he looked at you? He wasn't distracted. He was consumed.
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distractions
love
romance
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Stephanie Perkins |
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War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.
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distractions
illusions
life
war
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Francesca Lia Block |
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The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there's no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning.
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boredom
cyber
cyberworld
david-foster-wallace
depression
dissatisfaction
distractions
emptiness
empty
endlessness
facebook
facebook-addiction
facebook-quotes
filler
first-world-problems
jonathan-franzen
loneliness
lonely
problems
robinson-crusoe
satisfaction
solitary
solitude
stimulation
suicide
virtual
void
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Jonathan Franzen |
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I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.
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distractions
libraries
reading
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Tracy Chevalier |
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You can't really think hard about what you're doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn't see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling.
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care
consciousness
distractions
excellence
habits
music
observations
quality
work-environment
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Robert M. Pirsig |
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I felt like I wasn't living thoroughly enough -- I was distracted in ways I wouldn't be if I'd been born in 1929.
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distractions
mindfulness
modern-life
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Miranda July |