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.
ADAM GOPNIKOf having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique.
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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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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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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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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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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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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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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I try to turn a written thing, when I’m in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.
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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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