"I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party."

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Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning. Everybody's talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.

— Maureen Dowd