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"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."
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"Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because printing was not yet invented. Precisely the contrary. The daily press and the telegraph, which in a moment spreads inventions over the whole earth, fabricate more myths (and the bourgeois cattle believe and enlarge upon them) in one day than could have formerly been done in a century."
"All the promise of a movie is in the trailer."
"The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were."
"The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany."
"I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing."
"If you're nice, decent, attractive, get good grades and are talented, no one wants to read about that...They want to read what's out-of-the-ordinary, the scandalous, the shocking and the tragic. They want a story; they want to be captivated and what's typical does not give them that...unless, of course, that person ends up a victim, commits a crime or loses their minds via a love affair."
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"She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrased and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all."
"And Castle nodded sagely. 'So this is a picture of the meaninglessness of it all! I couldn't agree."
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind."
"I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool."
"Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic."
"The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent."
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