27 Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes - BrainyQuote

American - Historian October 1, 1914 - February 28, 2004

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

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Time Heroes Makes Celebrities

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

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Book Well Selling Because

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

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Personality Service Design Product

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

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Power Image Literature 20th Century

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

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Education Learning You Know Even

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Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.

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Sex Like Done Bed

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

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Knowledge Technology Drive Fog

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

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Think Open Early Discover Bars

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

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Person Celebrity Famous Who

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.

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Nothing Real Television Really

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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Good Fool Bad Genius

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

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Politics You Lie Your

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

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More Moral Human Than

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

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Freedom Opportunity Never Thought

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

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Life Courage Imagination Color

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

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Great Greatness Achieve Born

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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Reality Place Vices Those

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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Simple Experience World America

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

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World Crime Last Spontaneous

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

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Love America Nation Own

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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New Always Product Knowing

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

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Experience People Travel Adventure

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

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Knowledge Never Up Simply

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

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Wisdom Knowledge Ignorance Illusion

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

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Name Celebrity Famous More

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

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You Computers Book Bed

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