Top 100 Permissible Quotes

#1. All the good you've ever done does not make it permissible to sin now.

Johnny Hunt

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#2. Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper ...

Amy Vanderbilt

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#3. Maybe "warehouses" equals "mothers", a wide margin of error is permissible when you're dealing with super-impositions.

Roberto Bolano

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#4. When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

Sol LeWitt

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#5. When our children see us expressing our emotions, they can learn that their own feelings are natural and permissible, can be expressed, and can be talked about. That's an important thing for our children to learn.

Fred Rogers

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#6. My husband Terry and I are mostly monogamous ... There are times - certain set and limited circumstances - when it is permissible for us to have sex with others.

Dan Savage

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#7. It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

Alan Paton

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#8. Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions to old adages of achievement. Persevering day in, day out improves techniques, but resting one day causes lapses. This must be prevented.

Mas Oyama

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#9. While it is democratically not permissible for an individual to own any information or publishing medium, all individuals have a natural right to self-expression by any means, even if such means were insane and meant to prove a person's insanity.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

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#10. Everything is permissible as long as it's done in good taste.

Kaija Saariaho

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#11. It turns out that the famous dictum, associated with Dostoevsky's Ivan Karamazov, can run both ways: yes, without God everything is theoretically permissible ... but believers can find ways to use God to justify just about anything as well.

Brian D. McLaren

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#12. Nor is the Gita a collection of do's and dont's. What is lawful for one may be unlawful for another. What may be permissible at one time, or in one place, may not be so at another time, and in another place. Desire for fruit is the only universal prohibition. Desirelessness is obligatory.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#13. It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's face ...

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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#14. Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.

Charles Krauthammer

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#15. There could conceivably be circumstances in which an experiment on an animal stands to reduce suffering so much that it would be permissible to carry it out even if it involved harm to the animal ... [even if] the animal were a human being.

Peter Singer

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#16. Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?

Meg Greenfield

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#17. If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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#18. Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.

Mao Zedong

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#19. For the moment, I am relying on the authority of Cahir aep Ceallach, the only soldier in our company-and Cahir confirmed that winning battles by means of a rapid escape from the battlefield is permissible from the point of view of most military doctrines.

Andrzej Sapkowski

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#20. Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Austin O'Malley

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#21. It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.

Rachel Hartman

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#22. If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the reins can come up with "compelling" reasons to justify it, then constitutional guarantees acquire an accordionlike quality.

William O. Douglas

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#23. decision. I was tired of his jealousy, sick of his belief that the only permissible topic of conversation was his unrecognized genius.

Francine Prose

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#24. Hell itself, although eternal, dates from the revolt of Lucifer. It is therefore permissible, in the light of this distant analogy, to think of myself as being here for ever, but not as having been here for ever.

Samuel Beckett

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#25. My mind was by no means easy about the need to carry out a clandestine action in the sovereign territory of a friendly country, and the question of whether it was permissible to do so - from both the ethical and political points of view - had to be faced in all its gravity.

Isser Harel

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#26. I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ... , which is never permissible in mathematics.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

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#27. Grieving the loss of a loved one - whether human or animal - is not only permissible, it is essential.

Linda Bender

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#28. War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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#29. Everything ritualistic must be strictly avoided, because it immediately turns rotten. Of course a kiss is a ritual too and it isn't rotten, but ritual is permissible only to the extent that it is as genuine as a kiss.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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#30. Don't be permissible. Be unstoppable.

Debasish Mridha

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#31. Freddie felt strongly that a natural appearance was only permissible, only really effective, it if was artificially produced.

Elizabeth Cadell

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#32. Why is one view permissible and the other criminally barred-other than because the force of law is being used to control political discourse and one form of terrorism (violence in the Muslim world) is done by, rather than to, the west?

Glenn Greenwald

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#33. [It] would allow citizens to set their own standards for the permissible use of force.

Sol Wachtler

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#34. All I say about severely disabled babies is that when a life is so miserable it is not worth living, then it is permissible to give it a lethal injection. These are decisions that should be taken by parents - never the state - in consultation with their doctors.

Peter Singer

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#35. Saying "Ameen" is permissible after reciting the Surah of al-Hamd in the Salat (but it's still not part of the Salat) especially with the intention of supplication.

Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

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#36. It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in power; we are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible, and which are not. ...

Carl Sagan

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#37. In France, it is only permissible to admire statues but tropical countries have no such prejudices, and the emergent Oriental in me took full account of the admirable proportions and the harmony of the movements of the acrobat on the stage.

Jean Lorrain

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#38. My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time.

Garrison Keillor

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#39. Instead, she found her argument in the "doctrine of necessity," an idea established in common law that in certain limited circumstances, which no parliament would ever care to define, it was permissible to break the criminal law to prevent a greater evil.

Ian McEwan

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#40. All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

Spiro T. Agnew

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#41. In New York, everything was permissible. No one cared what you wore, how you looked. Only you cared about those things. And if they didn't worry you, then they didn't matter.

Georgia Clark

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#42. But I am enjoying the feeling of inbetweenness - that not-yet-being-settled feeling - and I plan on dragging it out as long as I can, because its a state of grace where all things are permissible.

Jonathan Goldstein

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#43. However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

Herbert Spencer

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#44. If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

Pawan Kalyan

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#45. In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.

William James

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#46. Everything's permissible internally.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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#47. The Democrats can't lose, so they got rid of Bob Torricelli, way beyond when it was permissible. The time for a replacement had passed, but the New Jersey Supreme Court made up of Democrat hacks said, "Hey, if our candidate can't go, sure you can put in a replacement."

Rush Limbaugh

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#48. If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#49. Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

Johann Sebastian Bach

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#50. So now Stephen must actually learn at first hand hwo straight can run the path of true love, in direct contradiction to the time-honoured proverb. Must realize more clearly than ever, that love is only permissible to those who are cut in every respect to life's pattern.

Radclyffe Hall

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#51. For God also tells us that when you perform an action you believe to be a sin, it still counts as a sin even if it is proven to be permissible. Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of man.

G. Willow Wilson

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#52. winning battles by means of a rapid escape from the battlefield is permissible from the point of view of most military doctrines. The

Andrzej Sapkowski

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#53. I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

Edith Sitwell

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#54. She was living in a time when historically it was permissible to smile like that above the face of someone who had died a violent death.

Ali Smith

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#55. Since position and contact play so big a part in determining what can be seen, heard, read, and experienced, as well as what it is permissible to see, hear, read, and know, it is no wonder that moral judgment is so much more common than constructive thought.

Walter Lippmann

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#56. I have learned that under certain circumstances, a fib is not only permissible, but can even be an act of perfect grace.

Alan Bradley

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#57. Hitherto I have served you as a soldier; allow me now to become a soldier to God. Let the man who is to serve you receive your donative. I am a soldier of Christ; it is not permissible for me to fight.

Martin Of Tours

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#58. Sharia law is totally intolerant of homosexuality. It's not permissible.

Rush Limbaugh

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#59. Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.

Mencius

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#60. Female masturbation is permissible unconditionally.

Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

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#61. It is permissible to use wine not only for necessity, but also to make us merry ... [it must be moderate] lest men forget themselves, drown their senses, ... in making merry [those who enjoy wine] feel a livelier gratitude to God.

John Calvin

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#62. Food production is just one part of the repeated emphasis that you store a provision of food which will last for at least a year wherever it is legally permissible to do so.

Ezra Taft Benson

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#63. In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.

Louis Althusser

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#64. If you think of modern art like sex in all its forms - heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, multipartnered, bestial, whatever, with absolutely no holds barred and with everything available and permissible - that would be modern art.

Eve Arnold

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#65. It is the media that controls the boundaries of what is politically permissible, so better to change the media. Profit motives work against it, but if we can have the audience understand that most other forms of journalism are not credible, then it may be a forced move.

Julian Assange

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#66. In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible.

Cullen Murphy

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#67. When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.

Robert Fisk

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#68. Everything is true-Everything is permissible!

Hassan-i Sabbah

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#69. Yet Wallace and other segregationists created an inflamed environment in which a confused but also ambitious man like Ray could think it was permissible, perhaps even noble, to murder King. The signals Ray was picking up enabled him to believe that society would smile on his crime. What

Hampton Sides

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#70. It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym for this word.

Bertrand Russell

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#71. By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs.

John Cornyn

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#72. Some people steal from others, or defraud them, or enslave them, seizing their product and preventing them from living as they choose, or forcibly exclude others from competing in exchanges. None of these are permissible modes of transition from one situation to another.

Robert Nozick

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#73. Ordinary love is mere animal attraction. Otherwise why is the distinction between the sexes? If one kneels before an image, it is dreadful idolatry; but if one kneels before husband or wife, it is quite permissible!

Swami Vivekananda

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#74. It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans.

Eric Liu

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#75. Conservatism is like plaque; even once scraped away, it builds up again to problematic levels, so that what is now permissible can yet again become taboo -

Steve Toltz

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#76. Everything is permissible' - but not everything is beneficial (1 Corinthians 10:23).

Lysa TerKeurst

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#77. Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.

Criss Jami

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#78. It is never permissible to say, I say.

Suzanne Curchod

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#79. The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced deprived of the claims which are irreconcilable with the established society. Pleasure, thus adjusted, generates submission.

Herbert Marcuse

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#80. Life consists of positive and negative features, and I think that it is permissible to write about both.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#81. Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible.

Lewis H. Lapham

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#82. There are situations in life which bring the impartial observer to the conclusion that suicide is a luxury which is within the reach of, and permissible to, wealthy people.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#83. So little for a woman is permissible- yet on her back every human climbs to adulthood.

Janet Benton

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#84. It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.

Alan Paton

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#85. If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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#86. By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.

Martin Filler

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#87. What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible degree of sexual appeal, the less is required to make such an appeal effective.

Bertrand Russell

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#88. Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?

Seneca The Younger

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#89. Management has to create a climate where owning up to mistakes is permissible and colleagues have to agree, collectively, to cut each other some slack. I

Chris Hadfield

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#90. USDA regulations spell out precisely what sort of facility and system is permissible, but they don't set thresholds for food-borne pathogens. (That would require the USDA to recall meat from packers who failed to meet the standards, something the USDA, incredibly, lacks the authority to do.)

Michael Pollan

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#91. It is not permissible for a Muslim to buy products of the countries that are in a state of war with Islam and Muslims, for example, Israel.

Ali Al-Sistani

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#92. Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did not hold it fast by force and treated it with a certain condescension, it was permissible to endure its presence for a few days

Elias Canetti

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#93. It does not seem proper to speak of one attribute of God as being more central and fundamental than another; but if this were permissible, the Scriptural emphasis on the holiness of God would seem to justify its selection.

Louis Berkhof

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#94. In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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#95. Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#96. if it harms none, it is permissible. We must ask ourselves, 'What impact will my actions have on others? Will they cause hurt or harm? Can I do this, take this, say this without damage to other human beings, other species, the planet itself?' This is the way of least harm.

Sarah Owen

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#97. anything is permissible against those who harm you for no reason.

Firenza Cole

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#98. It's true what they say, that a baby gives you a reason to live. But also, a baby is a reason that it is not permissible to die. There are days when this does not feel good.

Rivka Galchen

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#99. It even contains rules on what types of blows are permissible when a husband beats his wife.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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#100. If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but in the end it's really only soap operas like your grandmother's afternoon "stories" and that's all it wants to be or has to be.

William Monahan

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