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Allen Shawn



Average rating: 3.27 · 963 ratings · 187 reviews · 11 distinct worksSimilar authors
Twin: A Memoir

3.06 avg rating — 444 ratings — published 2010 — 17 editions
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Wish I Could Be There: Note...

3.28 avg rating — 384 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions
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Leonard Bernstein: An Ameri...

4.01 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions
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Arnold Schoenberg’s Journey

3.82 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions
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Bem Que Eu Queria Ir

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A Dance Album

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Elixir: For String Orchestr...

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Wish I Could Be There

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Gêmeos: Memórias

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“A species in which everyone was General Patton would not succeed, any more than would a race in which everyone was Vincent van Gogh. I prefer to think that the planet needs athletes, philosophers, sex symbols, painters, scientists; it needs the warmhearted, the hardhearted, the coldhearted, and the weakhearted. It needs those who can devote their lives to studying how many droplets of water are secreted by the salivary glands of dogs under which circumstances, and it needs those who can capture the passing impression of cherry blossoms in a fourteen-syllable poem or devote twenty-five pages to the dissection of a small boy's feelings as he lies in bed in the dark waiting for his mother to kiss him goodnight...”
Allen Shawn

“I find a certain degree of loneliness not only tolerable but deeply pleasurable.”
Allen Shawn

“Disagreeing with his cousin’s characterization of the Bible as “nonsense,” he wrote that, on the contrary, one could find in it “all of the most difficult questions concerning Morals, Lawmaking, Industry, and Medical Science … resolved in the most simple way, often treated from a contemporary point of view.” He also urged her to read his own letters to her more carefully, saying that each sentence contained something specific and that “if perhaps the surface seems smooth to you, the water is very deep, and often the smoother the surface the deeper the water.”
Allen Shawn, Arnold Schoenberg's Journey

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