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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.

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Adam Gopnik
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: August 24
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I don't miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent. 'Credibility' is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we'll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.
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I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak more agreeably balanced when I write.
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Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share. You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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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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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it. The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.
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