What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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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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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Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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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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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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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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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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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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