In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
ADAM GOPNIKCredibility’ is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we’ll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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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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The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
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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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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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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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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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A fact about photography: we can look at people’s faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states
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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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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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Of 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.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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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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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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