The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.
Pico IyerI do think itโs only by stopping movement that you can see where to go. And itโs only by stepping out of your life and the world that you can see what you most deeply care aboutโฆ and find a home.
Pico IyerLonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when it comes to visitors. They are shy, defensive, curious places; places that do not know how they are supposed to behave.
Pico IyerA holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.
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