"It is only a short step from exaggerating……" — Daniel J. Boorstin
"It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world."
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Daniel J. Boorstin
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91 Quotes by 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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An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously…
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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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A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
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We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality,…
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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
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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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For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure…
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