David Carr > Quotes

“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

“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, The Night of the Gun

“If marriage is about deciding to love on a daily basis, I have woken up to a no-brainer every day since.”
― David Carr, The Night of the Gun

“We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process.”
― David Carr, The Night of the Gun

“There is no such thing as a social crack user.”
― David Carr, The Night of the Gun

“Truth is singular and lies are plural, but history - the facts of what happened is both immutable and mostly unknowable.”
― David Carr, The Night of the Gun

“...that explains everything and excuses nothing.”
― David Carr, The Night of the Gun

“But I've seen enough to know that we all carry a measure of guilt and innocence among us.”
― David Carr, The Night of the Gun

“The eyes that saw too much because they did not close enough.”
― David Carr, The Night of the Gun

“Memories are like that. They live between synapses and between the people who hold them. Memories, even epic ones, are perishable from their very formation even in people who don't soak their brains in mood-altering chemicals. There is only so much space on any one person's hard drive, and old memories are prone to replacement by newer ones.”
― David Carr, The Night of the Gun

“Coming from Minnesota, a land of white people who eat white food in a frequently white landscape, Chocolate City, with its black middle class, political leadership, and cultural legacy was a complete mystery to me.
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― David Carr, The Night of the Gun

“Necessity is a mother.”
― David Carr, The Night of the Gun

“It wasn't that I wanted to be a writer; I just didn't want to be stupid.”
― David Carr, The Night of the Gun