We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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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Making an idea into an emotion.
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It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility:
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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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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Wit and puns aren’t just décor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
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That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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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 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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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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 reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution – perhaps the first modern political institution.
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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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