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
ADAM GOPNIKDaniel 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 coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
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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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What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are – the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.
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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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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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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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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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