What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
ADAM GOPNIKI try to turn a written thing, when I’m in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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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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Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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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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Making an idea into an emotion.
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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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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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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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 coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
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