… a pastime for helots, a diversion for uneducated, wretche… - Georges Duhamel

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… a pastime for helots, a diversion for uneducated, wretched, worn-out creatures who are consumed by their worries, … a spectacle which requires no concentration and presupposes no intelligence,… which kindles no light in the heart and awakens no hope other than the ridiculous one of someday becoming a ‘star’ in Los Angeles.

Georges Duhamel

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Georges Duhamel (June 30, 1884 – April 13, 1966), was a French author.

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Pen Names: Denis Thévenin

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Use your radio, but know how to distrust it—and do not let a day go by without reading and meditation if you want to save your soul, that soul which is yours and yours alone.

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