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.
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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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American 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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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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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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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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