The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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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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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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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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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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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.
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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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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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.
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The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
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The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know – apart from the more obvious sensual ones – is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols.
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Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad.
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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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