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Adam Gopnik Quote: “Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.”

51. “Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.”

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Adam Gopnik Quote: “Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in, of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.”

52. “Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in, of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.”

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Adam Gopnik Quote: “I try to turn a written thing, when I’m in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.”

53. “I try to turn a written thing, when I’m in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.”

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Adam Gopnik Quote: “When you see a Gauguin, you think, This man is living in a dream world. When you see a van Gogh, you think, This dream world is living in a man.”

54. “When you see a Gauguin, you think, This man is living in a dream world. When you see a van Gogh, you think, This dream world is living in a man.”

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Adam Gopnik Quote: “We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence. Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad. What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place? The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.”

55. “We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence. Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad. What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place? The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.”

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Adam Gopnik Quote: “In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.”

56. “In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.”

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Adam Gopnik Quote: “The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.”

57. “The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.”

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Adam Gopnik Quote: “I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.”

58. “I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.”

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Adam Gopnik Quote: “This can shake you up, this business of things almost but not quite being the same. A pharmacy is not quite a drugstore; a brasserie is not quite a coffee shop; a lunch is not quite a lunch.”

59. “This can shake you up, this business of things almost but not quite being the same. A pharmacy is not quite a drugstore; a brasserie is not quite a coffee shop; a lunch is not quite a lunch.”

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Adam Gopnik Quote: “Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.”

60. “Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.”

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Adam Gopnik Quote: “Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.”

61. “Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.”

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Adam Gopnik Quote: “I don’t think there’s any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that – that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.”

62. “I don’t think there’s any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that – that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.”

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Adam Gopnik Quote: “Whenever I am feeling blue, I like to go to the Balzar and watch a waiter gravely transfer a steak au poivre and its accompaniments from an oval platter to a plate, item by item. It reaffirms my faith in the sanity of superfluous civilization.”

63. “Whenever I am feeling blue, I like to go to the Balzar and watch a waiter gravely transfer a steak au poivre and its accompaniments from an oval platter to a plate, item by item. It reaffirms my faith in the sanity of superfluous civilization.”

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Adam Gopnik Quote: “Wine grapes are as sensitive to assaults as authors.”

64. “Wine grapes are as sensitive to assaults as authors.”

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Adam Gopnik Quote: “The romance of your child’s childhood may be the last romance you can give up.”

65. “The romance of your child’s childhood may be the last romance you can give up.”

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Adam Gopnik Quote: “We pursued the muses, instead of the mirrors.”

66. “We pursued the muses, instead of the mirrors.”

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Adam Gopnik Quote: “She always called him Luca, in the Italian manner, and said it with that funny trans-European intonation, the accent oddly placed on the first syllable: ‘Where’s Loo-ka?‘, just like Audrey Hepburn saying, ‘Take the pic-ture,’ in Funny Face.”

67. “She always called him Luca, in the Italian manner, and said it with that funny trans-European intonation, the accent oddly placed on the first syllable: ‘Where’s Loo-ka?‘, just like Audrey Hepburn saying, ‘Take the pic-ture,’ in Funny Face.”

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Adam Gopnik Quote: “Tenderness toward one’s lost self is sentimental; tenderness toward one’s lost longings is just life.”

68. “Tenderness toward one’s lost self is sentimental; tenderness toward one’s lost longings is just life.”

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Adam Gopnik Quote: “It was odd, he thought... to be in love with a girl at once so musical and so heavily armed.”

69. “It was odd, he thought... to be in love with a girl at once so musical and so heavily armed.”

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Adam Gopnik Quote: “Those macho attitudes include many admirable things: a genuine love of courage, a surprising readiness to celebrate failure if it is bought with bravery, an unsparing sense of the fatality of human existence, a love of the small pleasures that ennoble it.”

70. “Those macho attitudes include many admirable things: a genuine love of courage, a surprising readiness to celebrate failure if it is bought with bravery, an unsparing sense of the fatality of human existence, a love of the small pleasures that ennoble it.”

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Adam Gopnik Quote: “Where pre-Enlightenment Europe was sporadically cruel, post-Enlightenment Europe was systematically inhumane; where the pre-Enlightenment was haphazardly prejudiced, the Enlightenment was systematically racist, creating a “scientific” hierarchy of humanity that justified imperialism. “Reason” became another name for bourgeois oppression, the triumph of science merely an excuse for more orderly forms of social subjugation.”

71. “Where pre-Enlightenment Europe was sporadically cruel, post-Enlightenment Europe was systematically inhumane; where the pre-Enlightenment was haphazardly prejudiced, the Enlightenment was systematically racist, creating a “scientific” hierarchy of humanity that justified imperialism. “Reason” became another name for bourgeois oppression, the triumph of science merely an excuse for more orderly forms of social subjugation.”

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Adam Gopnik Quote: “Much of what feels like mastery in adult life is actually the avoidance of a challenge.”

72. “Much of what feels like mastery in adult life is actually the avoidance of a challenge.”

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Adam Gopnik Quote: “Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.”

73. “Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.”

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