If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something-just by staying alive.
 John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989). copy citation

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Author John Irving
Source A Prayer for Owen Meany
Topic death television
Date 1989
Language English
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