The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know – apart from the more obvious sensual ones – is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols.
ADAM GOPNIKIt mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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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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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors
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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.
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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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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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The overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about – was still startling.
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