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"It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country."
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"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."
Intelligence
"When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand."
Doubt
"If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come."
Books
"The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement."
Challenge
"From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away."
Appearance
"The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers."
Quality
"I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes."
Research
"Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations."
Power
"When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split."
God
"I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday."
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"Advertising is legalized lying."
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"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."
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"We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake."
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"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion."
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"Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares."
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"You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern."
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"This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records."
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"If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising."
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"It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media."
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"More traffic means more advertising dollars."
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