8 Quotes & Sayings By David Carr

David Carr is a Senior News Reporter for the NY Times. He was previously a columnist for the NY Times and a writer for The Atlantic. He has also worked for The Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, The American Prospect, New York, The Village Voice, Esquire Magazine, and Rolling Stone. An avid reader of nonfiction books since childhood, he began writing regularly in college Read more

He attended Columbia University and lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

Necessity is a mother.
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Necessity is a mother. David Carr
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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
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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
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End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame. David Carr
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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
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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 any time soon David Carr
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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