If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
ADAM GOPNIKWe breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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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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The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it.
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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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The reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution – perhaps the first modern political institution.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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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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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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Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.
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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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