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

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

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

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

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

We pursued the muses, instead of the mirrors. — Adam Gopnik

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

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

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

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

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

Big writers become a kind of shared climate. — Adam Gopnik

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity. — Adam Gopnik

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As Adam Gopnik remarked in The New Yorker, "Post-modernist art is, above all, post-audience art." In — David Bayles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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

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

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

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

Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners — Adam Gopnik

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