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The Backfire Effect: The Psychology of Why We Have a Hard Time Changing Our Minds

How the disconnect between information and insight explains our dangerous self-righteousness.

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33 Books on How to Live: My Reading List for the Long Now Foundation’s Manual for Civilization

Books that help us make sense of ourselves, our world, and our place in it.

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Wondrous Beauty: How Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte Pioneered the Ideal of the Independent Woman

How an American who married into the most powerful family in Europe became a model of empowered womanhood in the nineteenth century.

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“Creation is really a sustained period of bliss — even though the subject can still be very sad.”

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The Hating Book: An Illustrated Vintage Parable About What Every Friendship Needs

“You’re ugly and dumb. Being with you was never fun.”

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Isaac Asimov on the Thrill of Lifelong Learning, Science vs. Religion, and the Role of Science Fiction in Advancing Society

“It’s insulting to imply that only a system of rewards and punishments can keep you a decent human being.”

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Narrowly Selective Transparency: Susan Sontag on Photography vs. the Other Arts

“While a painting or a prose description can never be other than a narrowly selective interpretation, a photograph can be treated as a narrowly selective transparency.”

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“If you must gamble away your life sexually, don’t play a Lone Hand too much.”

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Vladimir Nabokov on Writing, Reading, and the Three Qualities a Great Storyteller Must Have

“Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.”

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Joan Didion on Storytelling, the Economy of Words, and Facing Rejection

“Short stories demand a certain awareness of one’s own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.”

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Search results for “frankl”

The Backfire Effect: The Psychology of Why We Have a Hard Time Changing Our Minds

How the disconnect between information and insight explains our dangerous self-righteousness.

33 Books on How to Live: My Reading List for the Long Now Foundation’s Manual for Civilization

Books that help us make sense of ourselves, our world, and our place in it.

Wondrous Beauty: How Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte Pioneered the Ideal of the Independent Woman

How an American who married into the most powerful family in Europe became a model of empowered womanhood in the nineteenth century.

Alice Walker on Creativity

“Creation is really a sustained period of bliss — even though the subject can still be very sad.”

The Hating Book: An Illustrated Vintage Parable About What Every Friendship Needs

“You’re ugly and dumb. Being with you was never fun.”

Isaac Asimov on the Thrill of Lifelong Learning, Science vs. Religion, and the Role of Science Fiction in Advancing Society

“It’s insulting to imply that only a system of rewards and punishments can keep you a decent human being.”

Narrowly Selective Transparency: Susan Sontag on Photography vs. the Other Arts

“While a painting or a prose description can never be other than a narrowly selective interpretation, a photograph can be treated as a narrowly selective transparency.”

Mark Twain on Masturbation

“If you must gamble away your life sexually, don’t play a Lone Hand too much.”

Vladimir Nabokov on Writing, Reading, and the Three Qualities a Great Storyteller Must Have

“Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.”

Joan Didion on Storytelling, the Economy of Words, and Facing Rejection

“Short stories demand a certain awareness of one’s own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.”

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Search results for “frankl”

How the disconnect between information and insight explains our dangerous self-righteousness.

Books that help us make sense of ourselves, our world, and our place in it.

How an American who married into the most powerful family in Europe became a model of empowered womanhood in the nineteenth century.

“Creation is really a sustained period of bliss — even though the subject can still be very sad.”

“You’re ugly and dumb. Being with you was never fun.”

“It’s insulting to imply that only a system of rewards and punishments can keep you a decent human being.”

“While a painting or a prose description can never be other than a narrowly selective interpretation, a photograph can be treated as a narrowly selective transparency.”

“If you must gamble away your life sexually, don’t play a Lone Hand too much.”

“Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.”

“Short stories demand a certain awareness of one’s own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.”

View Full Site