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Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
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Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.
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All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Clive James
Born:
October 7, 1939
Died:
November 24, 2019
(aged 80)
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