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Adam Gopnik has 44 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 own software,…
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself…
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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 leaves on…
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as…
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free,…
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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, and therefore…
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time…
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the…
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long,…
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind…
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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
— Erma Bombeck
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My favorite part of a roller-coaster ride is when you're going up and you're slightly scared and really excited. You don't know…
— Gina Gershon
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Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of…
— John Lithgow
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The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience.
— Bernadette Peters
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.
— Adam Gopnik
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Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.
— Pharrell Williams
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We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.
— Joni Mitchell
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I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering…
— Eda LeShan
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I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this…
— Sloane Crosley
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Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the gold ring, and…
— J D Salinger
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Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's…
— Augusten Burroughs
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The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums,…
— Ray Bradbury
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