"'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum."

-- Jools Holland

#Gone Quotes #Television Quotes #Asylums Quotes

“My cartoons appear in newspapers, which are full of words, but there's something about having it in this little box that confounds people's expectations.”
“We are bringing in another threat, which is nature itself. I don't really want to get into specifics too much, but I will say that there is a third uncontrollable, almost undefeatable threat that is going to come in when the characters of the show are at their most vulnerable. It's really going to be something that they have a hard time dealing with.”
“So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.”
“Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world from somewhere in particular, or from many places. So every novelist's literary style is nothing less than an ethical strategy - it's always an attempt to get the reader to care about people who are not the same as he or she is.”
“The West believes that man and the universe are both complex and that the apparently discordant parts of each can be put into a reasonably workable arrangement with a little good will, patience, and experimentation.”
“It was soon evident in my lodgings that I had become a dangerous lunatic, and there would be nothing left to destroy if strong measures were not taken. So I was turned out of the house, but it was only into the garden, where I was allowed to build a small darkroom of oilcloth.”
“If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world.”
“The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.”

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