I love books; I read and write them for the same reason I love to talk with a friend for 10 hours, not 10 minutes (let alone, as is the case with the average Web page, 10 seconds). The longer our talk goes, ideally, the less I feel pushed and bullied into the unbreathing boxes of black and white, Republican or Democrat, us or them. The long sentence is how we begin to free ourselves from the machine-like world of bullet points and the inhumanity of ballot-box yeas or nays.
~ Pico Iyer  Los Angeles Times

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    Iyer. Here’s mills:...an Andrew Potter quote...tumbled from...
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    This is a beautiful sentiment with which I while heartedly agree.
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