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If one is afraid of intimacy yet afraid of being alone, even a stand-alone (not networked) computer offers an apparent solution. Interactive and reactive, the computer offers the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship. One can be a loner yet never be alone.
-- Sherry Turkle (Life on the Screen)
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw
When I have a terrible need of -- shall I say the word -- religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
-- Vincent Van Gogh
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