An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
I did not feel ‘evil’ when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
When I became a teenager, I got very into clothing. I remember cutting Gucci advertisements and sticking them on my wall.
While readers know that advertisements keep the product cost low, they still buy a newspaper for its editorial content and not for its advertisements.
While I understand that all things must come to an end, whether it’s a television advertisement or one’s life or the world itself, it doesn’t make it any easier to deal with.
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