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.
ADAM GOPNIKWe breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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I don’t think there’s any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that – that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.
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I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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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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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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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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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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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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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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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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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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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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