“Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain because something that's dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other deeper type of pain that is always there if only in an ambient, low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy tryin…”— John Green, youtube.comTagged: The Pale King, Distractions, Engagement
“I've become keenly aware that we literally do live in a world of shout-y walls. And if that isn't distracting enough, my phone contains the voices of billions on Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook. But Montag is right when he said that, 'Nobody feels listened to,' because too often, we don't listen to…”— John Green, youtube.comTagged: Stories, Fahrenheit 451, Distractions
“It is those stories, the ones that could hold up to microscopic observations, that can fill us up and can fill us in.”— John Green, youtube.comTagged: Stories, Fahrenheit 451