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"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."
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"Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around."
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"I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series."
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"I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980."
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"He who is created by television can be destroyed by television."
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"Television speeded everything up."
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"Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them."
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"I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended."
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"I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years."
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"I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing."
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"Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio."
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"It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles."
Art

"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."
Poetry

"I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster."
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"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."
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"It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others."
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"I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well."
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"The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time."
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"I have never sought the reason why I write."
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"Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds."
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"Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps."
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