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 turnin… - Georges Duhamel

For many people in the future, radio will take the place of an inner life.

The instinct to synthesize is a good one so long as it is concerned with elements that are capable of forming a whole. But today the man in the street is fed, morally as well as physically, on a mass of debris which has no resemblance to a nourishing diet. There is no method in this madness, which is the very negation of culture.

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.