Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
ADAM GOPNIKI still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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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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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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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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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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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 first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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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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Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow?
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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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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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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