Adam Gopnik Quotes

A World In Which Everything Is Fashionable Is Impossible To Imagine, Because It Implies That There Would Be Nothing To Provide A Contrast. The Reason That When You Place Any Two Things Side By Side, One Becomes Chic And The Other Does Not Is That It's In The Nature Of Desire To Choose, And To Choose Absolutely. That's The Mythological Lesson Of The Great Choice Among The Beauties: They Are All Beautiful - They Are Goddesses - And Yet A Man Must Choose. And What Was The Chooser's Name? Paris. C'est Normal.

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