That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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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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Tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn’t diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.
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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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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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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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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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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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Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know – apart from the more obvious sensual ones – is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols.
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The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don’t think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.
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A fact about photography: we can look at people’s faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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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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