“There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why, ninety-five percent of the information that reaches you has already been preselected and paid for.”

A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982)

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Japanese author, novelist 1949

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