Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party to go to?

Glen Duncan
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  2. Maybe I should, I don't know leave? Because this is starting to sound like one of those reality shows I don't want to be in. Maybe you guys want to take turns in the confessional booth. - Rachel Caine

  3. Some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems. - Chuck Palahniuk

  4. FRUITS AND NUTSKeep jumping around them like monkeys. The clones, Commercialized zombies, And the TV junkies. Keep throwing berries, Twigs, And nuts at them. Until they wake up To see what's up And figure out why We're laughing at 'em. - Suzy Kassem

  5. You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex. - Craig Ferguson

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  1. The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.

  2. You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.

  3. Extraordinary what the body remembers. The bones loded with love, grief silting the arteries, fear the bowels' recurring mould. Who would have thought mere flesh and blood could hold so much of psyche's ghostly script?

  4. It’s why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn’t have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living.

  5. Don't bother looking for the meaning of it all. There isn't one. Maybe not, but life compulsively dangled the possibility. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and...

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