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 GOPNIKFanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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Wit and puns aren’t just décor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
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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 that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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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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What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are – the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.
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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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Credibility’ 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.
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can’t say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
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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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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