Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
ADAM GOPNIKThe first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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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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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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Tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn’t diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.
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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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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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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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A fact about photography: we can look at people’s faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states
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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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