“A decent man would stand out like a cactus on an ice floe.”
“A survey of Canadian media consumption by Microsoft concluded that the average attention span had fallen to eight seconds, down from 12 in the year 2000.”
Timothy Egan“Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day in, day out, they labor to find their voice, to learn their trade, to understand nuance and pace. And then, facing a sea of rejections, they hear about something like Barbara Bush’s dog getting a book deal.”
Timothy Egan“Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized," Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust storms. What was happening, he said, was "sinister", a symptom of "our stupendous ignorance.”
Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl“I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)”
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