David Carr Quotes

#1. If marriage is about deciding to love on a daily basis, I have woken up to a no-brainer every day since.

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#2. Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they accidentally told the truth.

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#3. Tucked in safe suburban redoubts, kids who had it soft like me manufactured peril.

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#4. End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.

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#5. We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process.

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#6. The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.

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#7. [C]ivilians are equally bewildering to the addict. I've watched people drink a glass and a half of wine and push away the rest. What exactly is the point of that?

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#8. Memory becomes not a faculty but a coconspirator, a tool for constructing the self that we show the world.

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#9. Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot.

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#10. I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon

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#11. The trick of enjoying New York is not to be so busy grinding your way to the center of the earth that you fail to notice the sparkle of the place, a scale and a kind of wonder that puts all human endeavors in their proper place.

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#12. Necessity is a mother.

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