What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
ADAM GOPNIKMusic is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors
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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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Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist…
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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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Making an idea into an emotion.
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I don’t think there’s any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that – that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.
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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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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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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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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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That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.
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