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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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The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.
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The thought of the presence of God and the spirit of worship will in all my actions have as their immediate object…
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you…
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There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may…
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Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the…
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Just like the moon is fully illuminated when facing the sun, so are believers who fully turn themselves to face the Prophet…
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A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude,…
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