“Specific reifications are variations on this general theme. Marriage, for instance, may be reified as an imitation of divine acts of creativity, as a universal mandate of natural laws, as the necessary consequences of biological or psychological forces, or, for that matter, as a functional imperative of the social system. What all these reifications have in common is their obfuscation of marriage as an ongoing human production. [...] Through reification, the world of institutions appears to merge with the world of nature.”
“The guiding principle when searching for the cause of everything wrong in the world has been, all too often: _cherchez la femme_.”
Source: Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
“Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience.”
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“To be honest, I think cell phones were invented by the devil.”
Source: NOS4A2
“Mum's mobile was the most immoblie cell phone in the world. It often lived on the top of the bookshelf closest to the front door. It was there so she'd see it before she left the house. The trouble was, Mum was alwayd leaving the house in a mad rush and the mobile stayed put.”
Source: Boyfriend Rules of Good Behavior
“And who are we without hope?”
Source: Snowglobe
“People earnestly say to me here, 'Mr Knight, we have cellphones now, and you're going to really enjoy them.' That's their enticement for me to rejoin society. 'You're going to love it,' they say. I have no desire. And what about a text message? Isn't that just using a telephone as a telegraph? We're going backwards.”
Source: The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
“No cell phones?” Macey said as if we’d just told her all students were required to shave their heads and live on bread and water.”
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“You have not had any privacy since the first day you owned your first cell phone. They can track everything. They can hear recordings of anything you have ever said on your cell. And read everything you ever read, and everything you ever typed. And see every location you've ever been to. That's just how cells work. Your privacy is a willful illusion.”
Source: American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America
“What's making us uncomfortable...is this feeling of losing control - a feeling that instantiates itself in a dozen different ways each day, such as when we tune out with our phone during our child's bath time, or lose our ability to enjoy a nice moment without a frantic urge to document it for a virtual audience.”
Source: Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World