"Going to a restaurant is one of my……" — Adam Gopnik
"Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life."
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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 Civilised Quotes
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It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam…
— Annie Besant
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It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think…
— Bertrand Russell
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The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised…
— Norman Lockyer
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All civilised countries should unite in the fight against international terrorism.
— Vladimir Putin
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This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.
— Samuel Smiles
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When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects…
— Robin Boyd
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It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Globalisation can provide the route for the development of a sustainable and prosperous planetary society in the next generation, provided…
— Peter Ellyard
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I think you will agree the sign of a civilised society is a regular dining schedule.
— Philippa Ballantine
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Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, to kill as many Arabs as…
— Ariel Sharon
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It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that…
— Samuel Johnson
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