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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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I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have…
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Cats can be very funny, and have the oddest ways of showing they're glad to see you...
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On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous…
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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,…
— Adam Gopnik
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Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.
— Stephen Fry
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Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has…
— Pico Iyer
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It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something…
— Christian Morgenstern
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Deep, dark unearthly black. I hadn't told anyone yet, but the color kept streaking across my mind at the oddest moments. When…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information…
— Stephen Fry
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One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the…
— Jonathan Raban
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While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My…
— Bill Murray
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Though it was bright sunshine everyone felt suddenly cold. The only two people present who seemed to be quite at their ease…
— C.S. Lewis
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