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William Faulkner on Writing, the Human Dilemma, and Why We Create: A Rare 1958 Recording
William Faulkner on Writing, the Human Dilemma, and Why We Create: A Rare 1958 Recording

“It’s the most satisfying occupation man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to, so there’s always something to wake up tomorrow morning to do.”

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Shakespeare, Sadness-Shaman: How Hamlet Can Help Us Through Our Grief and Despair
Shakespeare, Sadness-Shaman: How Hamlet Can Help Us Through Our Grief and Despair

“Hamlet is about the precise kind of slippage the mourner experiences: the difference between being and seeming…”

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David Bowie Answers the Famous Proust Questionnaire
David Bowie Answers the Famous Proust Questionnaire

“Q: What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? A: Living in fear.”

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Dani Shapiro on Vulnerability, the Creative Impulse, the Writing Life, and How to Live with Presence
Dani Shapiro on Vulnerability, the Creative Impulse, the Writing Life, and How to Live with Presence

“The job — as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy — of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it. To be birthed by it.”

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Lynne Tillman on What to Say When People Ask You Why You’re an Artist or Writer
Lynne Tillman on What to Say When People Ask You Why You’re an Artist or Writer

“Writers and artists may ask themselves why they make art or write… but all rebuttals and answers to their existential questions rest on faith in Art or Literature.”

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Jane Goodall Answers the Proust Questionnaire
Jane Goodall Answers the Proust Questionnaire

A dead writer meets one of the greatest scientists alive.

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Swami Vivekananda on the Secret of Work: Intelligent Consolation for the Pressures of Productivity from 1896
Swami Vivekananda on the Secret of Work: Intelligent Consolation for the Pressures of Productivity from 1896

“Every work that we do… every thought that we think, leaves such an impression on the mind-stuff…”

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The Poetics of the Psyche: Adam Phillips on Why Psychoanalysis Is Like Literature and How Art Soothes the Soul
The Poetics of the Psyche: Adam Phillips on Why Psychoanalysis Is Like Literature and How Art Soothes the Soul

“Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.”

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I Am Cow, Hear Me Moo: A Charming Illustrated Ode to Courage and Confidence
I Am Cow, Hear Me Moo: A Charming Illustrated Ode to Courage and Confidence

Why true heroism feeds on humility.

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Letters to a Young Artist: Anna Deavere Smith on Confidence and What Self-Esteem Really Means
Letters to a Young Artist: Anna Deavere Smith on Confidence and What Self-Esteem Really Means

“Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner value with things in the world around you.”

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