Best David Carr Quotes & Sayings
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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. — David Carr
Memory becomes not a faculty but a coconspirator, a tool for constructing the self that we show the world. — David Carr
If marriage is about deciding to love on a daily basis, I have woken up to a no-brainer every day since. — David Carr
Tucked in safe suburban redoubts, kids who had it soft like me manufactured peril. — David Carr
David Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times, — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame. — David Carr
We live in an age where there is a firehose of information, and there is no hierarchy of what is important and what is not. Where the truth is often fashioned through a variety of digital means. Are you your avatar? Who are you in social media? What face do you turn toward the world? How much does it have in common with who you actually are? — David Carr
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 — David Carr
Necessity is a mother. — David Carr
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. — David Carr
[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? — David Carr
This is the point where the knowing, irony-infused author laughs along with his readers about his time among the aphorisms, how he was once so gullible and needy that he drank deeply of such weak and fruity Kool-Aid. That's some other book. Slogans saved my life. All of them
the dumb ones, the preachy ones, the imperatives, the cliches, the injunctives, the gooey, Godly ones, the shameless, witless ones. — David Carr
Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot. — David Carr
As I sit today, I am a genuine, often pleasant person. I am able to imitate a human being for long spurts of time, do solid work for a reputable organization, and have, over the breadth of time, proven to be an attentive father and husband. So how to reconcile my past with my current circumstances? Drugs, it seems to me, do not conjure demons, they access them. Was I faking it then, or am I faking it now? Which, you might ask, of my two selves did I make up? — David Carr
We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process. — David Carr
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. — David Carr