"A disturbing possibility exists that the television experience has not merely blurred the distinctions between the real and the unreal for steady viewers, but that by doing so it has dulled their sensitivities to real events. For when the reality of a situation is diminished, people are able to react to it less emotionally, more as spectators."

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Source : Marie Winn (1978). “Plug in Drug”, Bantam Books

Marie Winn

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“One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.”
“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.”

Source : Washington Irving (2014). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.181, Penguin
“An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.”
“each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.”
“There is a structural difference between the way that Europe views Israel, and America views Israel. The European view is informed by the importance of colonialism in Europe's past. So for Europeans we are like Belgiums in the Congo, or the French in Alger, or the British in India. Strange interlopers in somebody else's land. But in fact, we [Israeli] have been here for 4,000 years. This is our ancestral homeland.”
“I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.”
“The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.”

Source : "On the Art of the Cinema". Book by Kim Jong Il, www.hollywoodreporter.com. 1973.
“You learn that, when your children are all right, everything is right in the world.”

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