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The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

~Daniel J. Boorstin

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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.

~Daniel J. Boorstin

Topics: Ad Any Bad Fool Genius Good Hands His Keep Learned Off Real Takes Write

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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.

~Daniel J. Boorstin

Topics: Addition America American Experience Fact Helped Important Later Mankind Most Prepare Simple Surprises Surprising The Most Important World

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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

~Daniel J. Boorstin

Topics: Authentic Crime Event Last Refuge Spontaneous World

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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.

~Daniel J. Boorstin

Topics: Abandoned America Ancestors Been Beloved Echo Fallen Image Images Individuals Love Making Narcissism Nation Now Our Ourselves Out Own Social Suffer Turn Which

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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.

~Daniel J. Boorstin

Topics: Advertisement Along Always Announcement Desires Discover Eager Even Knowing New Our Product Read Ready Really Wanted Without

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

~Daniel J. Boorstin

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: October 1st, 1914

Died: February 28th, 2004

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