We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
ADAM GOPNIKMusic is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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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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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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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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Making an idea into an emotion.
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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
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Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad.
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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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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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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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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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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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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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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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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