"Drawing is one of those things which sit……" — Adam Gopnik
"Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought."
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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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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed…
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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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More Bending Quotes
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one of 133 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
— Aesop
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I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out…
— Sandra Bullock
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The bending of men's hearts to believe and persevere are the supernatural fruits of God's eternal decree, and not the…
— William Jenkyn
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The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems…
— Auguste Rodin
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Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief…
— Sarah Fielding
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I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is…
— Joanna Lumley
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Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.
— Sun Tzu
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We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.
— Rahm Emanuel
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Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one…
— David Anthony Durham
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Revival, as contrasted with a Holy Ghost atmosphere is a clean- cut breakthrough of the Spirit, a sweep of Holy…
— Norman Grubb
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion…
— Nadine Gordimer
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Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter timeless confidence…
— Wallace Stevens
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