For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.
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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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I try to turn a written thing, when I’m in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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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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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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It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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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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Making an idea into an emotion.
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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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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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Would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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