Search results for “Susan Sontag”
Anton Chekhov’s 6 Rules for a Great Story
Mastering the essential complementarity of compassion and total objectivity.
Jeanette Winterson’s 10 Tips on Writing
“Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.”
Seneca on Gratitude and What It Really Means to Be a Generous Human Being
“I am grateful, not in order that my neighbour, provoked by the earlier act of kindness, may be more ready to benefit me, but simply in order that I may perform a most pleasant and beautiful act.”
Theodore Roosevelt on the Two Pillars of Good Citizenship and the Most Dangerous Enemy of Democracy
“In a republic, to be successful we must learn to combine intensity of conviction with a broad tolerance of difference of conviction.”
Zadie Smith on What Writers Can Learn from Some of History’s Greatest Dancers
“Between propriety and joy choose joy.”
Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener on the Malady of “Content” and How to Save Creative Culture from the Syphoning of Substance
“When there is communication without need for communication, merely so that someone may earn the social and intellectual prestige of becoming a priest of communication, the quality and communicative value of the message drop like a plummet.”
Iris Murdoch on Storytelling, Why Art Is Essential for Democracy, and the Key to Good Writing
“A good society contains many different artists doing many different things. A bad society coerces artists because it knows that they can reveal all kinds of truths.”
The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener on Communication, Control, and the Morality of Our Machines
“We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A pattern is a message.”
Carl Sagan on Mystery, Why Common Sense Blinds Us to the Universe, and How to Live with the Unknown
“We are bathing in mystery and confusion… That will always be our destiny. The universe will always be much richer than our ability to understand it.”
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