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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.

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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.
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors
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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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That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.
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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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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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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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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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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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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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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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We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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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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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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