Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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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.
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I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.
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I don't think I've ever seen a better argument for feminism on mainstream television.
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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.
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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
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Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.
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