"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."

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Source : Times Literary Supplement 10 June 1960

Nathalie Sarraute

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“When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer and up through Shakespeare and Milton, the most important themes to tackle are those of the mythopoeic domain, tales of the body and mind seen through a temperament and a cosmos divorced from current reality so what is said can be more clear.”
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
“I actually think that one of the most dangerous phenomena is the bowing to expertise, whether it's in international relations or how to use technologies.”
“Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about.”
“Beauty is much more intimidating than brutality.”
“I didn't know the comic at all, which is really funny because I grew up here and I had friends who worked at all of the places. Like The Beguiling, which is a store here, and Suspect Video and one of my friends actually worked at Suspect and The Beguiling. So it's kind of crazy that I'd never known the books before.”
“The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns.”
“...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.”

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