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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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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist…
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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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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend
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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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In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.
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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of “I’s,” and a listening audience somehow turns each “I” into a “me.”
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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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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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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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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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