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.
ADAM GOPNIKI think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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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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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist…
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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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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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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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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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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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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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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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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The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don’t think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.
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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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