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"Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things."

Baudrillard, Jean · Television · 1 fans >>
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"There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you."

Baudrillard, Jean · Television · 0 fans >>
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"Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list."

Berger, John · Television · 0 fans >>
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"TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract."

Brokaw, Tom · Television · 1 fans >>
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"So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn't it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy."

Chandler, Raymond · Television · 1 fans >>
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"Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set."

Chandler, Raymond · Television · 1 fans >>
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"What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdad's of his dreams to rise from the dust."

Dali, Salvador · Television · 0 fans >>
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"Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect."

Day, Sir Robin · Television · 1 fans >>
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"So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life."

Ehrenreich, Barbara · Television · 1 fans >>
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"It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome."

Eliot, T. S. · Television · 1 fans >>
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