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And by the mid-afternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else.

—Jonathan Safran Foer,

Everything Is Illuminated

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“Help me. I had a dream last night. I was skipping through a meadow holding a picnic basket and the basket was marked ‘Options’. And then I saw there was a hole in the basket.”

“Mr. Kugelmass, the worst thing you could do is act out. You must simply express your feelings here, and together we’ll analyze them. You have been in treatment long enough to know there is no overnight cure. After all, I’m an analyst, not a magician.”

“Then perhaps what I need is a magician,” Kugelmass said, rising from his chair.

—Woody Allen,

“The Kugelmass Episode”

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. . . But one day

The sun will stand where the heart once stood

And there will be no words in human speech

That a poem would renounce

Everyone will write poetry . . .

—Branko Miljković, “Everyone Will Write Poetry”

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We human beings hog the limelight on this new stage of democratized media. We are simultaneously its amateur writers, its amateur producers, its amateur technicians, and, yes, its amateur audience. Amateur hour has arrived, and the audience is now running the show.

—Andrew Keen,

The Cult of the Amateur:

How Today’s Internet Is Killing our Culture