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I hold that the novelist is the historian of the present, just as the historian is the novelist of the past.
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If the public gets out of the habit of reading they will not come back to it. We shall enter a new phase of our history from which there is no turning back.
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For many people in the future, radio will take the place of an inner life.
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Radio and cinema are daily playing a more and more important part, not only in the amusements of the twentieth-century man but also in the visible formation of his character.
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Death remains a great thing, but one with which one's relations have become frequent and intimate. Like the king who shows himself at his toilet, Death is still powerful, but it has become familiar and slightly degraded.
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When I say, Beware of the radio if you want to improve your mind, … I am warning the public against their worst enemy, conformity.
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I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
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The book is one of the springs of creative individualism, that individualism which, in these uncertain times, remains the guardian angel of human society. For five hundred years the book has been, for the solitary mind, an incomparable instrument of uplift and liberation.
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I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.
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Radio, on the other hand, is now the chief agent of imperialism. It does not purify the spirit of man, does not, like the book, bring him back to the sanctuary of solitude, but throws him to the lions, subtly preparing his mind for the blood and chains of public sacrifice.
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Is it possible to create a maintain a true culture, a strong and flourishing culture, through the medium of pictoral and oral apparatus?
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What a teacher imparts by word of mouth is nothing in comparison with what he teaches us to get for ourselves from books.
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… the cinema and the radio and the effect they have had in weakening the impulse to spiritual effort
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The burden of experience is a sorrowful one. It is always sorrowful to have sufficient memory to discern the future.
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Sometimes he comes up out of the depths and speaks. He talks of death with an imaginative lucidity which sounds like actual experience. Sometimes he sees it.... And as he gazes, his pupils suddenly distend. But he will not, he cannot make up his mind.... He wants to suffer a little longer.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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Born:
June 30, 1884
Died:
April 13, 1966
(aged 81)
Bio:
Georges Duhamel was a French author, born in Paris. Duhamel trained as a doctor, and during World War I was attached to the French Army. In 1920, he published Confession de minuit, the first of a series featuring the anti-hero Salavin.
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