"Moving people into reality TV is a mistake."

-- Tammy Bruce

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“My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No. When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.”

Source : Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
“It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.”
“The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.”
“If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.”
“Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.”
“Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.”

Source : William Henry Harrison (1833). “Christmas tales, historical and domestic”, p.187
“There are three necessary elements in a story - exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as "John Fortescue was a solicitor in the little town of X"; development as "One day Mrs Fortescue told him she was about to leave him for another man"; and drama as "You will do nothing of the kind," he said.”
“Few people will turn to themselves to take responsibility for their results until they have exhausted all opportunities to blame someone else.”

Source : Larry Winget (2011). “Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life”, p.36, John Wiley & Sons

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