Allen Shawn
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Twin: A Memoir
17 editions
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2010
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Wish I Could Be There: Notes From a Phobic Life
8 editions
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2007
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Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician
9 editions
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2014
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Arnold Schoenberg’s Journey
5 editions
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2002
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Bem Que Eu Queria Ir
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A Dance Album
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2001
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Elixir: For String OrchestraSet of parts
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2005
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Wish I Could Be There
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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...”
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“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.”
― Arnold Schoenberg's Journey
― Arnold Schoenberg's Journey
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