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Daniel J. Boorstin

"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."

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"I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers."

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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"

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"Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones."

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"I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should."

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"Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past."

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"Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself."

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"The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most."

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"If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn."

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"Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October."

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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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"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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"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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"Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities."
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"The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness."
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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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"The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century."
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"Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed."
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"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."
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