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Mairead Small Staid

Mairead Small Staid Quotes

Total quotes: 3

Mairead Small Staid

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Total quotes: 3

“We call this endless, immaterial material a feed, though there’s little sustenance to be found.”

— Mairead Small Staid, Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction

Tagged: Tech, Feed, Algorithms, Substance

“Here, on the internet, is a nowhere space, a shallow time. It is a flat and impenetrable surface. But with a book, we dive in; we are sucked in; we are immersed, body and soul.”

— Mairead Small Staid, Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction

Tagged: Tech, Books, Reading, Why Read, Time, The internet

“[T]he power of art—and many books are, still, art, not entertainment—lies in the way it turns us inward and outward, all at once. The communion we seek, scanning titles or turning pages, is not with others—not even the others, living or long dead, who wrote the words we read—but with ourselves. Our finest capacities, too easily forgotten.”

— Mairead Small Staid, Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction

Tagged: Tech, Books, Reading, Why Read

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