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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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romance
love
distractions
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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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war
life
distractions
illusions
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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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suicide
solitude
loneliness
satisfaction
depression
cyberworld
endlessness
facebook-addiction
filler
first-world-problems
virtual
solitary
stimulation
distractions
dissatisfaction
facebook-quotes
david-foster-wallace
jonathan-franzen
boredom
facebook
cyber
emptiness
problems
robinson-crusoe
empty
void
lonely
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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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libraries
reading
distractions
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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
music
work-environment
observations
distractions
excellence
habits
quality
consciousness
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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
modern-life
mindfulness
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Miranda July |