"Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech."

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A disturbing possibility exists that the television experience has not merely blurred the distinctions between the real and the unreal for steady viewers, but that by doing so it has dulled their sensitivities to real events. For when the reality of a situation is diminished, people are able to react to it less emotionally, more as spectators.

— Marie Winn