"Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself……" — Adam Gopnik
"Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs."
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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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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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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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More Alice Quotes
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I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially…
— Jello Biafra
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I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alice In Chains have…
— Jerry Cantrell
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If I let a blue mood run rampant, before I know it I'm obsessing about the color of the satin…
— Kris Carr
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'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're…
— Lewis Carroll
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'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
— Lewis Carroll
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Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try…
— Lewis Carroll
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she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards…
— Lewis Carroll
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The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws…
— Lewis Carroll
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Then he kissed her so deeply and so completely that she felt like she was falling, floating, spiraling down, down,…
— Liane Moriarty
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It's a gamble. A band like Kiss, a lot of those are our audience but we don't do as much…
— Michael Bruce
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I have read various articles on the fourth dimension, the relativity theory of Einstein, and other psychological speculation on the…
— Charles Lane Poor
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'Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. Alice looked around the table, but there was nothing…
— Lewis Carroll
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