"Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising……" — Adam Gopnik
"Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that."
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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 Conventions Quotes
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.
— Carol Bellamy
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This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
— David Brinkley
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
— Barbara Bush
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and…
— Barbara Bush
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In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science…
— Jonathan Carroll
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The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts…
— Emanuel Celler
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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of…
— John Yoo
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There are many who subscribe to the convention that service is a business cost, but our data demonstrates that superior…
— Jim Bush
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There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a…
— George Santayana
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How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump…
— Bill Bradley
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