American - Historian | October 1, 1914 - February 28, 2004
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.
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Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
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A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
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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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Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.
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The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
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I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
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As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
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We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.
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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
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