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Adam Gopnik

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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Choose Give Herself More Only Understand Woman
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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Country Eerie Legend Library Long People Purpose Serious Shelved Space Time
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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Cooking Domestic Guilty Here Most Painless Party Take Truth Undue Virtue
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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Autumn Doubtless Game Imagination Kind Light Nostalgic Played Series Some World
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.
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Assure Better Cause Credibility Defined Good Kill Lot Now One People Willingness World
The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
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Being Complicated Expatriate Feeling Free Kind Loneliness Odd
What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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Abundance Drive Ease Innovate Innovation Pressure Scarcity Thinking
You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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Coffee Culture Decent Food Grow Growing Together Up
Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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Choose Crazy Day Disinherited Every Man Monarch Thinking Woman
Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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Dinner Food Prisoner Punish Punishment Water
We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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Emotion Eye Feel Lost Minute Name Somehow Thinking
Tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn’t diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.
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After All Better Cling Diminish Down Elegantly Faith Glamour Man People Question Today Tomorrow Upside
The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know – apart from the more obvious sensual ones – is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols.
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Best Blackness Drawing Feeling Invite Know Mental Obvious One Scribbling Sensual Symbol
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
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Bending Drawing Instinct Instruction Player Risk Thing Those Uneasy
For all the years I’d spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I
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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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After Carousel Honor Own Proud Reward Spinning

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