Quotes by Adam Gopnik

Adam Gopnik

A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is “South Park” – the hugely popular American cartoon show – and the things that the “South Park” creators have created, like “The Book Of Mormon,” the Broadway musical. If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right? It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.

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Charlie Hebdo

Musical

American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World

Dressed Up

Long

World

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.

Art

Faith

Practice

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

Cooking

Showy

Sides

Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.

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Beautiful

Song

Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners

Dinner

Prisoner

Water

Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.

Drawing

Player

Risk

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

Flavor

Human Beings

Humans

For all the years I’d spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?

Art

Talking

Writing

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.

Practice

Thinking

Trying

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America

Argument

Art

Attitude

Autumn

Beautiful

Being Free

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Bookstores

Brutality

Bugs

Causes

Charlie Hebdo

Choices Made

Coffee

Cooking

Degrees

Desire

Dinner

Drawing

Dressed Up

Easy

Education

Eerie

Essentials

Eye

Faith

Fear

Feelings

Firsts

Flavor

Food Culture

Games

Giving

Good Times

Growing Up

Height

Human Beings

Humans

Ideas

Isis

Joy

Kids

Knows

Light

Littles

Loneliness

Long

Loyalty

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Quotes by Adam Gopnik

Adam Gopnik

American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World

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.

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.

Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners

Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

For all the years I’d spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?

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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