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"It's not the news that makes the newspaper, but the newspaper that makes the news."
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"Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children."
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"As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down."
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"No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen."
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"The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome."
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"I'm not one of those leeching sons of bitches. I want to earn everything I get."
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"Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so."
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"TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape."
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"The agenda of the Media is not to inform you, they don't care about you, they are trying to show you the truth. There are some intelligent Christians but they can't find them and put on the air ...for instance me."
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"Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived."
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"A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from."
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"The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless."
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"When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love."
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"All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful."
Art
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
Truth
"Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings."
Art
"When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules."
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"The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb."
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"Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow."
Art
"I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly."
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"I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed."
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