The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
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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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.
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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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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
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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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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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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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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The basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
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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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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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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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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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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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