I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
ADAM GOPNIKI rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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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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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of “I’s,” and a listening audience somehow turns each “I” into a “me.”
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.
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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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I am a guilty party here – to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
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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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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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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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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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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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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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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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