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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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The hero was distinguished by his achievement the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man the celebrity is a big name.
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Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.
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As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
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The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
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The problem for us is less to discover the way it really is than to see the meaning of the way.
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Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in.
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We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.
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I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
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More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.
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Climaxing a movement for calendar reform which had been developing for at least a century, in 1582 Pope Gregory ordained that October 4 was to be followed by October 15.
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. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.
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Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A best seller is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.
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Being known primarily for their well-knownness, celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by becoming widely known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis, celebrities live off one another.
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The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
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We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.
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The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.
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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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Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.
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Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.
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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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