“Quiet Spaces
We had gone far enough together to listen easily in the quiet spaces.”
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Nicholas Carr (1959) American writer
Is Google Making us Stupid in The Atlantic, July 2008.
Context: The kind of deep reading that a sequence of printed pages promotes is valuable not just for the knowledge we acquire from the author's words but for the intellectual vibrations those words set off within our own minds. In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book, or by any other act of contemplation, for that matter, we make our own associations, draw our own inferences and analogies, foster our own ideas…. If we lose those quiet spaces, or fill them up with 'content,' we will sacrifice something important not only in our selves but in our culture.
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Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma
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Anna Kavan (1901–1968) British artist
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Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Source: I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) German psychiatrist and philosopher
As quoted in Philosophy for a Time of Crisis : An Interpretation, with Key Writings by Fifteen Great Modern Thinkers (1959) by Adrienne Koch, Ch. 18, "Karl Jaspers : A New Humanism"
Julia Cameron book The Right to Write
Source: The Right to Write (1998)