David Carr Quotes

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If you dumped every reporter who ever sent a snide message or talked smack in private, there would be nothing but crickets chirping in newsrooms all over America.

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Though I still don't know how to pronounce zeppole, I sure as heck can eat one, so I don't mind fishing around for a bad pair of shorts to sport on the boardwalk.

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With Facebook, with Twitter, with Tumblr, with Instagram, the sort of inflection point over and over is when they go from being a pure play utility into being a business. How do they twist those knots in such a way to not offend their user base.

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Mr. Weigel was the victim of a "not invented here" reflex that many legacy media companies still possess. He was not, as they say, "one of us," but one of "them," brought in to sprinkle new-media pixie dust on a mainstream newspaper that was hemmed in by political and journalistic convention.
Dave Weigel had been fired from The Washington Post

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Drugs, it seems to me, do not conjure demons; they reveal them.

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As a member of a self-interpreting species, one that fights to keep disharmony at a remove, I'm inclined to mention my tenderhearted attentions as a single parent before I get around to the fact that I hit their mother when we were together.

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I always thought that people who spent endless amounts of time drilling into their personal histories are fundamentally unhappy in their lives, and I'm not. I'm ecstatic in my own dark, morbid way and subscribe to a theory of the past that allows the future to unfold: We all did the best we could.

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Even in the gang I ran with, coming through the doors of the dope house swinging two occupied baby buckets was not done.

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I moved grams, eight balls, ounces, quarter pounds — no one trusted me with a kilo for more than a few minutes.

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Regardless of how much blather you hear about the two parties bickering in Washington, the Beltway is really a monoculture that accommodates the two poles of a debate but very little in between.

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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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Junkies and drunks frequently end up putting a megaphone to their own pratfalls in the form of memoir because they need to believe that all of the time they spent with their lips wrapped around glass, whether is was a bottle of vodka or a crack pipe, actually meant something.

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I think that we could agree that anyone who's in the business of predicting the future of journalism is going to get clobbered.

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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 soon.

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God had looked after the twins, and by proxy me, but I realized at that moment that I was in the midst of a transgression He could not easily forgive.

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There is something terribly existential in all of this: Work all of your life to scratch out a piece of suburban idyll, and then work some more so you can afford to get the hell away from it.

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When memory is called to answer, it often answers back with deception.

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To be an addict is to be something of a cognitive acrobat. You spread versions of yourself around, giving each person the truth he or she needs—you need, actually—to keep them at a remove.

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Trapped in drug-induced paranoia, I began to think of the police as God's emissaries, arriving not to seek vengeance but a cease-fire, a truce that would put me up against a wall of well-deserved consequences, and the noncombatants, the children, out of harm's way.

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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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You can have the best search function in the world, but if it is crawling across a cesspool, it is not going to bring back much of anything interesting.

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I'm the kind of person who showers with his shirt on, so walking the beach at Southampton seemed vaguely mysterious — how could so many people have impossibly perfect tans one day into the season? And where did they all stay? Summer shares that cost $20,000 a month?"

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What happened in 2012 I think will be viewed as a watershed, meaning money from readers surpassing the money we get from advertising. I think that points a way forward, that news has to be useful enough to be worth extracting money from the people who use it.

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