"Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as……" — Adam Gopnik
"Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting."
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44 Quotes by Adam Gopnik
Adam Gopnik has 44 quotes on this site.
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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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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 Closed Quotes
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
— Margaret Atwood
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I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors.
— Stephen Baldwin
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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between…
— Bono
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What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The…
— Bono
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A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition.…
— Bill Bryson
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And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying…
— Julie Burchill
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open…
— George H. W. Bush
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We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is…
— Paul Cellucci
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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