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Reads from 2013

Seventeen-Year-Old Virginia Woolf on Nature, Imitation and the Arts
Seventeen-Year-Old Virginia Woolf on Nature, Imitation and the Arts

“All the Arts … imitate as far as they can the one great truth that all can see.”

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The Science of Why We Are All Female, Animated
The Science of Why We Are All Female, Animated

Why males have nipples, or what a zipper has to do with the distinction between male and female genitalia.

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Iconic Designer Massimo Vignelli on Intellectual Elegance, Education, and Love
Iconic Designer Massimo Vignelli on Intellectual Elegance, Education, and Love

“Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.”

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Sherwood Anderson on Art and Life: A Letter of Advice to His Teenage Son
Sherwood Anderson on Art and Life: A Letter of Advice to His Teenage Son

“The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.”

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Illustrated Six-Word Memoirs by Students from Grade School to Grad School
Illustrated Six-Word Memoirs by Students from Grade School to Grad School

“The constraint fuels rather than limits our creativity.”

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H.P. Lovecraft’s Advice to Aspiring Writers: Timeless Counsel from 1920
H.P. Lovecraft’s Advice to Aspiring Writers: Timeless Counsel from 1920

“Popular magazines inculcate a careless and deplorable style which is hard to unlearn… If such things must be read, let them be skimmed over as lightly as possible.”

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How People Earn and Use Money: Vibrant Vintage Illustrations from 1968
How People Earn and Use Money: Vibrant Vintage Illustrations from 1968

“Before spending money a person should be sure he is doing the right thing.”

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Chu’s Day: Neil Gaiman’s Charming Children’s Book
Chu’s Day: Neil Gaiman’s Charming Children’s Book

“It’s the shortest book I’ve ever written and, right now, I think it might be the one I’m most proud of.”

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The Science of Productivity, Animated
The Science of Productivity, Animated

“Studies have found that the most elite violinists in the world generally follow a 90-minute work regime, with a 15- to 20-minute break afterwards.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald on the Secret to Great Writing: Letters of Advice to a Friend’s Teenage Daughter and to His Own
F. Scott Fitzgerald on the Secret to Great Writing: Letters of Advice to a Friend’s Teenage Daughter and to His Own

“Nothing any good isn’t hard.”

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