"I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers.."

-- Edward R. Murrow

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“To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?”
“I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect”
“... parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents -- we didn't rear them -- and yet we do.”

Source : Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books
“Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put a little wall around infinity. And you're afraid to look on the other side of that wall.”

Source : Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.52, Penguin
“The actors come and you start seeing things happen for real.”
“And the reason I am writing this on the back of a manila envelope now that they have left the train together is to tell you that when she turned to lift the large, delicate cello onto the overhead rack, I saw him looking up at her and what she was doing the way the eyes of saints are painted when they are looking up at God when he is doing something remarkable, something that identifies him as God.”
“Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.”
“If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go and that is down.”

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