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Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilage of read more
Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilage of the underprivilaged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses.
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature,
the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
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In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature,
the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
- Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,
It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited
six thousand years for read more
It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited
six thousand years for an observer.
Television is now so desparately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
Television is now so desparately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated
readings deserves to be read at all.
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated
readings deserves to be read at all.
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is read more
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
The mind, relaxing into needful sport,
Should turn to writers of an abler sort,
Whose wit well read more
The mind, relaxing into needful sport,
Should turn to writers of an abler sort,
Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,
Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.
When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.
When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.
All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
