Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
ADAM GOPNIKI 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.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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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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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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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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New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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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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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of “I’s,” and a listening audience somehow turns each “I” into a “me.”
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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 call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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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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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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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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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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