Adam Gopnik Quotes (8 quotes)

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„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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„I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.“
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„There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.“
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„In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.“
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„I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.“
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„Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.“
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„I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.“
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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.“
― Adam Gopnik ―

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Author Profession: Writer

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