“It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you're young and shy, making people laugh is a good way to make friends. It's an instant connection.” PeopleWayPersonsDoeSeemsYoungLaughingConnectionsMake SenseInstantContradictionShyPerformersGood WayMaking People LaughShy PersonInstant Connection Author:Paul Merton
“And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in fact communicate so much as leave messages for one another, these odd improvisational performances, often sorry bits and samplings of ourselves that can't help but seem out of context. And then when you do finally reach someone, everyone's so out of practice or too hopeful or else embittered that you wonder if it would be better not to attempt contact at all.” IfsFactsHelpingSeemsWould BeBitsWonderPracticeMessagesConnectionsPerformancesSorryCommunicateContactOddInstantHopefulLeaving MeMillennialsOf ContextSampling Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.” MayIdeasSeemsCertainCapableConnectionsImportanceMadnessExtremesInventionAbsurdJudgementIsolationAcquireLinksInsignificant Author:Friedrich Schiller
“The fact that the most powerful and significant connections in our lives are (at the time) invisible to us seems to me a compelling argument for religious reverence rather than skeptical empiricism as a response to life's meaning.” PersonsFactsSeemsReligiousPowerfulOur LivesArgumentConnectionsResponseSignificantInvisibleMost PowerfulReverenceCompellingSkepticalEmpiricism Author:David Foster Wallace
“Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces.” LifeSeemsPayAttentionBeautyVisionSeeingConnectionsDepthSurfacePay AttentionAweFlatsInterdependence Author:Colin Neenan
“It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind narrator undertakes a quest that is unmistakably timely. But in its yearning for awareness and connection, this book feels timeless.” FeelsKindDoeBookStoriesSeemsAwarenessConnectionsMemoirBrandsYearningQuestsTimelessBrand NewTimelyNarratorsOne Of A KindNina Author:K. M. Soehnlein