The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
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More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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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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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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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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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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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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In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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I think if journalists start doing that then they won’t be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won’t be practicing satire.
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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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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