I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
ADAM GOPNIKDaniel 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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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.
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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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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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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow?
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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We’ve had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants.
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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility:
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