"American long for a closed society in which……" — Adam Gopnik
"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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44 Quotes by Adam Gopnik
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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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Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its…
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman…
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it…
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of…
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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,…
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you…
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve,…
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for…
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and…
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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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