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Quotes about television
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Television is a corporate vulgarity. (Banks Leslie)
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. (Banks Leslie)
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. (Banks Leslie)
Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list. (Banks Leslie)
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Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect. (Banks Leslie)
So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life. (Banks Leslie)
It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. (Banks Leslie)
I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face. (Banks Leslie)
Television is an excellent system when one has nothing to lose, as is the case with a nomadic and rootless country like the United States, but in Europe the affect of television is that of a bulldozer which reduces culture to the lowest possible denominator. (Banks Leslie)
A three -- to four -- to five-hour experience with nothingness. (Banks Leslie)
Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs. (Banks Leslie)
Television is becoming a collage -- there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. (Banks Leslie)
Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world. (Banks Leslie)
Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory. (Banks Leslie)
Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. (Banks Leslie)
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube. (Banks Leslie)
I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book. (Banks Leslie)
In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera. (Banks Leslie)
Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity. (Banks Leslie)
Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality. (Banks Leslie)
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. (Banks Leslie)
Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. (Banks Leslie)
The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked? (Banks Leslie)
The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. (Banks Leslie)
Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry. (Banks Leslie)
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