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.
ADAM GOPNIKI don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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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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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.
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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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What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are – the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.
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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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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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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 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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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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We’ve had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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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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