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Author - Adam Gopnik
Quotes by : Adam Gopnik
editorials
Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening,....
perception
[A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the....
reasoning
The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination.
Best
The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon....
words
There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things....
paranoia
[T]he relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios--the overwhelming....
Wine
Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering....
time
The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you....
history
Whatever our official pieties, deep down we all believe in lives. The sternest formalists are the loudest....
literature
This is surely the most significant of the elements that Tolkien brought to fantasy.... his arranged....
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