You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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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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Of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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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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I don’t think there’s any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that – that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.
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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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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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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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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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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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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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The basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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