Adam Gopnik Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. August 24, 1956
Birthday: August 24
When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive; that they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up.
source: "Facing History" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. April 9, 2012. 
topic: Beautiful, Men, Mind, Handsome Men
