Credibility’ is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we’ll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.
ADAM GOPNIKThat any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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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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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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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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Would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
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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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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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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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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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