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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.

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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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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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A fact about photography: we can look at people’s faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states
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The overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about – was still startling.
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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
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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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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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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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I try to turn a written thing, when I’m in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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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 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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The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
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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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