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We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.
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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Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.
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We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.
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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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The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.
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The mind is a vagrant thing.... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.
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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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There is no disinfectant like success.
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An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.
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The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
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Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.
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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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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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Until now when we have started to talk about the uniqueness of America we have almost always ended by comparing ourselves to Europe. Toward her we have felt all the attraction and repulsions of Oedipus
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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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Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary, to keep him properly in the public eye.
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As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
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The hero is known for achievements the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the possibilities of the press and media. Celebrities are people who make news, but heroes are people who make history. Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
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We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions -perhaps one of the secret terrors -of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.
Daniel J. Boorstin
