"oh how television diminishes everything."

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Source : Nancy Mitford, Charlotte Mosley (1993). “Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Nancy Mitford

#Television Quotes

“I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it.”
“China saves too much, produces too much, sells too much to Americans and consumes too little.”
“Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it into account, there is still grave danger that the temporal power of Islam may return and, with it, the menace that it may shake off a West which has ceased to be Christian, and affirm itself as a great anti-Christian world Power.”
“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”

Source : Howard Zinn (1993). “Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian”, p.118, South End Press
“Stories. They're everywhere...You never know where they start and you certainly don't know where they'll end. If they ever DO end. (Nevermore)”
“The rocks will melt with the sun before tuition fees are introduced in Scotland.”
“Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life in every situation in society.”
“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.”

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