"Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults."

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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

Advertising, Argument

"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."

Thomas Merton, American Author

Advertising, Seriousness

"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."

George Orwell, British Author

Advertising,

"You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern."

Ann Macbeth, English Author

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"Advertising is legalized lying."

H. G. Wells, English Author

Advertising, Lying

"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion."

Lisa Miller, Australian Musician

Advertising, Religious

"Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere."

Brit Hume, American Journalist

Advertising,

"The future of advertising is the Internet."

Bill Gates, American Businessman

Advertising, Internet, Future, Marketing

"That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in."

Jerry Della Femina, American Businessman

Advertising, Chicago, Want

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"We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."

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"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."

Time, Virtue, Literature, World

"There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all."

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"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."

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"As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days."

Age, President, Television, Will

"What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions."

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"The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible."

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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."

"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."

"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."

"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."

"You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern."

"Advertising is legalized lying."

"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion."

"Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere."

"The future of advertising is the Internet."

"That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in."

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"We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."

"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."

"There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all."

"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."

"As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days."

"What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions."

"The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible."

"Write something, even if it's just a suicide note."

"It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail."

"Never have children, only grandchildren."