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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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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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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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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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The reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution – perhaps the first modern political institution.
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In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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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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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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Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share.
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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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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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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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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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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Credibility’ is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we’ll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.
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