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Adam Gopnik quotes: Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.

Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.

Adam Gopnik quotes: 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.

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.

Adam Gopnik quotes: Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

Adam Gopnik quotes: Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.

Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.

Adam Gopnik quotes: How could I forget you, Darryl? You called me God.

How could I forget you, Darryl? You called me God.

Adam Gopnik quotes: We pursued the muses, instead of the mirrors.

We pursued the muses, instead of the mirrors.

Adam Gopnik quotes: We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

Adam Gopnik quotes: The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination.

The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination.

Adam Gopnik quotes: I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.

I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.

Adam Gopnik quotes: I love you forever' really means 'Just trust me for now,' which is all it ever means, and we just hope to keep renewing the "now," year after year.

I love you forever' really means 'Just trust me for now,' which is all it ever means, and we just hope to keep renewing the "now," year after year.

Adam Gopnik quotes: I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.

I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.

Adam Gopnik quotes: Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

Adam Gopnik quotes: Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

Adam Gopnik quotes: Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.

Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.

Adam Gopnik quotes: Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

Adam Gopnik quotes: 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.

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.

Adam Gopnik quotes: Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.

Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.

Adam Gopnik quotes: It was odd, he thought... to be in love with a girl at once so musical and so heavily armed.

It was odd, he thought... to be in love with a girl at once so musical and so heavily armed.

Adam Gopnik quotes: 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.

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.

Adam Gopnik quotes: I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.

I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.

Adam Gopnik quotes: The romance of your child's childhood may be the last romance you can give up.

The romance of your child's childhood may be the last romance you can give up.

Adam Gopnik quotes: Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.

Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.

Adam Gopnik quotes: You have taken part in the only really majestic choice we get to make in life, which is to continue it.

You have taken part in the only really majestic choice we get to make in life, which is to continue it.

Adam Gopnik quotes: Nasty Men Make Nice Things; Unpleasant People Think Important Thoughts is, after all, the headline on almost every chapter in cultural history

Nasty Men Make Nice Things; Unpleasant People Think Important Thoughts is, after all, the headline on almost every chapter in cultural history

Adam Gopnik quotes: Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

Adam Gopnik quotes: History, well read, is simply humility well told, in many manners.

History, well read, is simply humility well told, in many manners.

Adam Gopnik quotes: Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

Adam Gopnik quotes: Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.

Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.

Adam Gopnik quotes: When you see a Gauguin, you think, This man is living in a dream world. When you see a van Gogh, you think, This dream world is living in a

When you see a Gauguin, you think, This man is living in a dream world. When you see a van Gogh, you think, This dream world is living in a man.

Adam Gopnik quotes: Parisians believe they are superior by birth, they do not believe, as Americans do, that they are invulnerable by right.

Parisians believe they are superior by birth, they do not believe, as Americans do, that they are invulnerable by right.

Adam Gopnik quotes: You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

Adam Gopnik quotes: After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.

After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.

Adam Gopnik quotes: I don't miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.

I don't miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.

Adam Gopnik quotes: parsley. Vegetables these days are chopped into tiny grass.

parsley. Vegetables these days are chopped into tiny grass.

Adam Gopnik quotes: What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

Adam Gopnik quotes: The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.

The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.

Adam Gopnik quotes: The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

Adam Gopnik quotes: [A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the other side think it's a good plan.

[A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the other side think it's a good plan.

Adam Gopnik quotes: I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.

I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.

Adam Gopnik quotes: Writers are married to their keyboards, as to their passports.

Writers are married to their keyboards, as to their passports.

Adam Gopnik quotes: ...we see life as deeply in our pleasures as in our pains.

...we see life as deeply in our pleasures as in our pains.

Adam Gopnik quotes: Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners

Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners

Adam Gopnik quotes: In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.

In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.