"Reading is like the sex act - done……" — Daniel J. Boorstin

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

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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91 Quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin has 91 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed…
I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin…
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he…
An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously…
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality,…
Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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