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" A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well. "
Because
Book
Selling
" 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. "
Personality
Picture
Service
" A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. "
Worth
Celebrity
More
" 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. "
Own
America
Ancestors
" As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. "
Politics
You
Your
" A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. "
Bed
Computers
Book
" Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. "
Learning
Know
You
" Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. "
Thought
Freedom
Never
" Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands. "
More
Persuasive
Than
" I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one. "
Fool
Bad
Genius
" I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early. "
Discover
Early
Open
" Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion. "
Never
Up
Knowledge
" Nothing is really real unless it happens on television. "
Nothing
Real
Television
" Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed. "
Sex
Act
Reading
" Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. "
Born
Achieve
Hire
" Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. "
Drive
Fog
Knowledge
" The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness. "
Famous
Person
Celebrity
" The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life. "
Imagination
Our
Color
" The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century. "
Literature
Image
Advertising
" The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. "
Ignorance
Illusion
Knowledge
" 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. "
America
World
Simple
" The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.' "
People
Experience
Travel
" The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event. "
Spontaneous
Last
Event
" We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman. "
God
Responsibility
World
" 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. "
Always
Ready
Product
" 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. "
Vices
Illusions
Place
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