“The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help. They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip- the relative you cringe to kiss.”
“They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip—the relative you cringe to kiss.”
“Do not hide your ignorance, because somebody might help you! Hiding always prolongs the problems.”
“Different and new is just the same old if you keep doing it over and over.”
“IN THE WEEKS THAT FOLLOWED, Livia played a new game every day. It was always some version of “Ignore Chris and Pretend Nothing’s Wrong With That.”
“The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.”