"Memory is often - perhaps usually - a……" — Graydon Carter
"Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember."
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77 Quotes by Graydon Carter
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Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a…
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People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice,…
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Many men think they're playboys, but they invariably land wide of the mark. Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends, and…
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Branding experts believe that just because they have rethought a company's image or name, the rest of us will automatically…
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Life is all about seating and lighting.
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We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence.…
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After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived…
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As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.
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As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.
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Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a…
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Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.
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Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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