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.
ADAM GOPNIKFor a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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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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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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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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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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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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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can’t say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
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A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is “South Park” – the hugely popular American cartoon show – and the things that the “South Park” creators have created, like “The Book Of Mormon,” the Broadway musical.
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Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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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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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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