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A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
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A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.
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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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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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As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
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Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
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Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
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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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I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.
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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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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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Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.
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Reading is like the sex act-done privately, and often in bed.
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
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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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Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
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The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
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The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
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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.
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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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The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
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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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The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the unexpected. None of our ancestors would have imagined settling way over here on this unknown continent. So we must continue to have society that is hospitable to the unexpected, which allows possibilities to develop beyond our own imaginings.
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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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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
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There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!'
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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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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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When they built this building they were afraid to say that beauty is truth for fear that it wouldn't be by the time it was completed.

Biography

Daniel J. Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004), an American historian and writer, was the Librarian of Congress from 1975 until 1987.

Boorstin wrote more than 20 books, including a trilogy on the American experience and one on world intellectual history. The Americans: The Democratic Experience, the final book in the first trilogy, received the 1973 Pulitzer Prize in history. Boorstin also wrote the books The Discoverers and The Creators, a pair of books that attempt to survey the scientific and artistic histories of humanity respectively. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, was a lawyer and university professor. He also served as director of the National Museum of History and Technology of the Smithsonian Institution.

When President Gerald Ford nominated Boorstin to be Librarian of Congress, the nomination was supported by the Authors League of America but opposed by the American Library Association because Boorstin "was not a library administrator." The Senate confirmed the nomination without debate.

During his term as Librarian of Congress, Boorstin established the Center for the Book to encourage reading and literacy. In addition, he spearheaded what became a 10-year project to completely renovate the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress, restoring the main building to its original 1897 condition. He became Librarian of Congress Emeritus on August 4, 1987. Boorstin was born in Atlanta, Georgia and died in Washington, D.C.

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* United States Library of Congress official site
* Center for the Book
* Daniel Boorstin papers collection

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