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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'
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When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian,…
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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
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Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem…
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Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice.…
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A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.
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A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
— Herbert V. Prochnow
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In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but…
— Mary McCarthy
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PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not…
— Max Lucado
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