"We breathe in our first language, and swim…" — Adam Gopnik
"We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second."
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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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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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Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love…
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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
— Isaac Asimov
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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe,…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to…
— Donovan Bailey
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I love hearing my audience breathe.
— Adele
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What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They…
— Nellie Bly
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a…
— Erma Bombeck
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Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the…
— Albert Camus
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
— Truman Capote
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Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through…
— Jim Carrey
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Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll…
— Julia Child
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not…
— Kate Chopin
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