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The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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Daniel J. Boorstin
Age: 89 †
Born: 1914
Born: October 1
Died: 2004
Died: February 28
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A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
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In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be more and more difficult to say whether we think it is a best seller because it is great, or vice versa.
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Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.
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The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
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I write to discover what I think.
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It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.
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Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.
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Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.
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There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!'
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Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story- a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.
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. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.
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But rather that we should lose our sense that neither can become the other, that the traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lense and the Cinerama screen tend to narrow it.
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We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.
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Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
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The institutional scene in which American man has developed has lacked that accumulation from intervening stages which has been so dominant a feature of the European landscape.
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As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
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Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.
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More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.
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The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
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The Christian test was a willingness to believe in the one Jesus Christ and His Message of salvation. What was demanded was not criticism but credulity. The Church Fathers observed that in the realm of thought only heresy had a history.
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