In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
ADAM GOPNIKYou can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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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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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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
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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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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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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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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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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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