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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.

Adam Gopnik

Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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Forbes Leafing Magazine Manual Operating Pirate Reading Stranger
You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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Coffee Culture Decent Food Grow Growing Together Up
I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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Add Argument Infinitely Information Rock Rush Rushtling Star Web
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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Book Devout Go Inspire Mormon Offered Thing
Wit and puns aren’t just décor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
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Absence Bug Decor Essential Mind Missing Pun
Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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Keenest Mean Meeting Restaurant Someplace Thinking Wine
After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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After Carousel Honor Own Proud Reward Spinning
I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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Breakfast Classic Coffee Country Meal Skip Sort Think Thinking
Of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
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Enter Found Individual Like Mind Reason Right Small Something Sound
Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs
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Choose Give Herself More Only Understand Woman
The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
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Alive Freedom Giving Make Mean Powerful Richer Time Virtue
This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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Absorption Alchemy Experience Kind Literature Reader Self Share
Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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Come Fanaticism Flavor Human Being Many
In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Additional Bookstore Field Interest Out Stuff Usually Way
The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
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Autumn Doubtless Game Imagination Kind Light Nostalgic Played Series Some World
Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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Anyone Certainty Easily Fluency Practice Pressure Think Thinking Writing

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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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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