What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
ADAM GOPNIKAfter all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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I think if journalists start doing that then they won’t be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won’t be practicing satire.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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I am a guilty party here – to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
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For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique.
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