Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
ADAM GOPNIKYou learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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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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It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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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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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility:
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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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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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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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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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