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Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes

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Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.
We [Americans] 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 place of reality.
The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our "deceivers" than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced.
Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people expected so much more than the world could offer.
Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly ... to revere God and be God.
What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by how widely and how well it is reproduced?
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.
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.
A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.
God is the Celebrity-Author of the Worlds Best Seller. We have made God into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.



Relationship Quote
A woman we love rarely satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman whom we do not love.


Success Quote
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
Motivational Quote
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Funny Quote
Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.
Life Quote
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

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