It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
ADAM GOPNIKYou learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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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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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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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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The basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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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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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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I am a guilty party here – to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.
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We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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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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