Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.
ADAM GOPNIKThe light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.
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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility:
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It’s really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place – relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.
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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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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 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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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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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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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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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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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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