Adam Gopnik Quotes

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors
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Believe Country Distance Error Fault Language Simple
I am a guilty party here – to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
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Cooking Domestic Guilty Here Most Painless Party Take Truth Undue Virtue
Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.
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Argument Since Editorial Good Mostly Side Winning Writing Your
I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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Add Argument Infinitely Information Rock Rush Rushtling Star Web
There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend
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Attitude Cooking Course Decent Party People Professional Simplicity Thinking
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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Childbirth Entirely Friendship Made Marriage Stand Story Strangest Tell
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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Breakfast Classic Coffee Country Meal Skip Sort Think Thinking
I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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Always Drawn Idea Particularly People Sophisticated Think Thinking
The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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But Easier First More One Second See Time Visible Visitor
The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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Fear Hysteria Incipient Invitation Note Real Relentless Scenarios Self Ungrounded
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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Expression Found Question Say Something Strong Sweet True Winsome Word Writing
The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
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Alive Freedom Giving Make Mean Powerful Richer Time Virtue
A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is “South Park” – the hugely popular American cartoon show – and the things that the “South Park” creators have created, like “The Book Of Mormon,” the Broadway musical.
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Analogy Book Cartoon Charlie Hebdo Country Good Musical Popular South Park
Making an idea into an emotion.
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Emotion Everything Feeling Generate Idea Making Understand
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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Confection Make More Think Sense Sentence Slightly Write Written
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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Buzz Buzzing Feeling Give Giving Head Idea Merely Start Try
Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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Climate Kind Shared Weather Writer Writing
What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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Ask First Lead Place Question Think Window
The 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.
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Eye Half Light Longing Looking Lost Minute Rise Shine Soul
That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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Consequent English Loudly Misunderstanding Simply Spoken Trouble
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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British Good Institution Modern Monarchy Perhaps Political Really
I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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Agreeably Intensely More Oiontated Speak Think Thinking Writing
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
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Accomplishment Art Become Faith Intensity More Practice Sustained
We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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Breathe Choice First Language Our Second Swim Travel
The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.
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Capitalism Feel Grace Hope Material Object Possibility Stuff Urgency Want
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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Keenest Mean Meeting Restaurant Someplace Thinking Wine

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