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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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God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.
— Thomas Keating
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French was my first language.
— Bob Cousy
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I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know,…
— Edward Said
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Our parents taught us to love God, love our family and love our country. Their own grandparents were immigrants. Their first language…
— Martin O'Malley
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I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.
— Odette Annable
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My first language is Gaelic.
— Enya
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Touch is the first language we speak.
— Stephen Gaskin
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Silence is God's first language.
— John of the Cross
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
— Adam Gopnik
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My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and…
— Bella Thorne
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I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.
— Robert Stack
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Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.
— Christopher Walken
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