Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
Nathalie SarrauteAbout author
- Author's profession: Lawyer
- Nationality: russian
- Born: July 18, 1900
- Died: October 19, 1999
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There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt.
Margaret Atwood
It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves the effort and pain of pursuing truth, love, and goodness, that we drift into a life of emptiness, in which there may be almost no pain, but the dark sensation of meaninglessness and abandonment is all the greater.
Joseph Ratzinger