David Carr Short Quotes

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

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

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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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