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title: "2 Television Circus Quotes By Paddy Chayefsky"
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> [Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats and story-tellers, singers and dancers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion-tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-chayefsky/television-is-not-the-truth-television-is-a-goddamned-amusement-park/)

[Paddy Chayefsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-chayefsky/)

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> [Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom killing business.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-chayefsky/television-is-god-damned-amusement-park-television-is-a-circus-a/)

[Paddy Chayefsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-chayefsky/)

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## More by Paddy Chayefsky

> [We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-chayefsky/we-ve-established-the-most-enormous-medical-entity-ever-conceived-and/)

[Paddy Chayefsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-chayefsky/)

> [The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-chayefsky/the-best-thing-that-can-happen-is-for-the-theme-to-be-nice-and-clear/)

[Paddy Chayefsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-chayefsky/)

> [Don't think of it as art, think of it as work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-chayefsky/don-t-think-of-it-as-art-think-of-it-as-work/)

[Paddy Chayefsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-chayefsky/)

> [It's not greed and ambition that makes wars--it's goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons, for liberation or manifest destiny, always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-chayefsky/it-s-not-greed-and-ambition-that-makes-wars-it-s-goodness-wars-are/)

[Paddy Chayefsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-chayefsky/)

> [It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-chayefsky/it-is-the-international-system-of-currency-which-determines-the/)

[Paddy Chayefsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-chayefsky/)

> [I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary fact of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-chayefsky/i-don-t-know-what-s-good-or-bad-or-true-i-let-god-worry-about-truth-i/)

[Paddy Chayefsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-chayefsky/)

> [“I would like at this moment to announce that I will be retiring from this program in two weeks' time because of poor ratings.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-chayefsky/i-would-like-at-this-moment-to-announce-that-i-will-be-retiring-from/)

[Paddy Chayefsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-chayefsky/)

> [“I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-chayefsky/i-don-t-have-to-tell-you-things-are-bad-everybody-knows-things-are/)

[Paddy Chayefsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-chayefsky/)

> [Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats and story-tellers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-chayefsky/television-is-not-the-truth-television-is-a-goddamned-amusement-park/)

[Paddy Chayefsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-chayefsky/)

> [Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-chayefsky/stop-thinking-about-writing-as-art-think-of-it-as-work-if-you-re-an/)

[Paddy Chayefsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-chayefsky/)

> [Television is Democracy at it's ugliest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-chayefsky/television-is-democracy-at-it-s-ugliest/)

[Paddy Chayefsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-chayefsky/)

> [Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-chayefsky/television-is-god-damned-amusement-park-television-is-a-circus-a/)

[Paddy Chayefsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-chayefsky/)

> [I'm afraid to look in the mirror. I'm afraid I'm going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-chayefsky/i-m-afraid-to-look-in-the-mirror-i-m-afraid-i-m-going-to-see-an-old/)

[Paddy Chayefsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-chayefsky/)

> [I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-chayefsky/i-m-a-human-being-god-dammit-my-life-has-value/)

[Paddy Chayefsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-chayefsky/)

> [This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-chayefsky/this-was-the-story-of-howard-beale-the-first-known-instance-of-a-man/)

[Paddy Chayefsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-chayefsky/)

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