Texting is addicting. Once you get emotionally involved with constant outside stimulation assaulting your brain, it is hard to stop looking at your machine every two minutes. Without rapid fire words appearing on a screen, you feel bored, not part of the action.
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Bill O'Reilly127 quotes“Texting is addicting. Once you get emotionally involved with constant outside stimulation assaulting your brain, it is hard to stop looking at your machine every two minutes. Without rapid fire words appearing on a screen, you feel bored, not part of the action.”
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Beth DittoBeth Ditto When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I’d have to figure out something to do.
Ben FalconeBen Falcone I guess when I’m frightened or in pain or maybe very bored I’ve tried to hold myself together by imposing a narrative order on the experience as it happens.
Ben LernerBen Lerner I still love what I do and I’ve done OK over the years … You’re a long time retired and anyway, I’d get bored.
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