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I write to discover what I think.
There is no disinfectant like success.
Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.
There is no known device for artistic contraception.
Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.
destruction is easy for humans but creation is too difficult.
Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension.
By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves.
The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.
Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media.
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.
. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world.
A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.
Where ruts have not yet been worn, it requires less effort to stay out of them.
Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers.
While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his name or trademark.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in.
[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.
No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.
The problem for us is less to discover the way it really is than to see the meaning of the way.
Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.
When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily.
There's something beautifully soothing about a fact — even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means.
While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.
Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery