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Adam Gopnik

All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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Artificial Good Invented Little Quality Secret Taste
Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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Afterward Better Defined Enacted Know Leave Light Love Paper Trace
Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs
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Choose Give Herself More Only Understand Woman
Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Engage Lover Magic Magician Master Maze Mind Permanent Poet
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
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Bending Drawing Instinct Instruction Player Risk Thing Those Uneasy
We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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Assure Call Disaster Imagine Such Thing Unimaginable
The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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But Easier First More One Second See Time Visible Visitor
The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
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Alive Freedom Giving Make Mean Powerful Richer Time Virtue
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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Anyone Certainty Easily Fluency Practice Pressure Think Thinking Writing
Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Art Bone Drawing Need Skeleton Skull
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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Keenest Mean Meeting Restaurant Someplace Thinking Wine
If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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Book Devout Go Inspire Mormon Offered Thing
We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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Breathe Choice First Language Our Second Swim Travel
I try to turn a written thing, when I’m in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.
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Argument Imagination Spoken Stories Trouble Try Trying Written
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
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Accomplishment Art Become Faith Intensity More Practice Sustained
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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Beauty Black Breath Coffee Cup Empty Idea Page Screen Staring Unique

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