That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share.
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of “I’s,” and a listening audience somehow turns each “I” into a “me.”
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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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 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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For all the years I’d spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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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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