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The Poetic Species: Legendary Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson in Conversation with Poet Laureate Robert Hass on Science and Poetry
“The social drive shaped the uses of imagination. It made it possible for humans to share their invisible inner worlds with each other.”
How We Grieve: Meghan O’Rourke on the Messiness of Mourning and Learning to Live with Loss
“The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.”
Leo Tolstoy on Finding Meaning in a Meaningless World
“For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.”
The Definitive Manifesto for Handling Haters: Anne Lamott on Priorities and How We Keep Ourselves Small by People-Pleasing
“What if you wake up some day, and you’re 65… and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?”
Kurt Vonnegut on Reading, Boredom, Belonging, and Our Human Responsibility
“Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.”
Animal Madness: How Deciphering Mental Illness in Our Fellow Beings Helps Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves
“To selflessly love another creature is to be open to loving other humans, who are animals as much as pandas, cows, or Shih Tzus.”
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.”
Seth Godin on Vulnerability, Creative Courage, and How to Dance with the Fear: A Children’s Book for Grownups
“If you just pick one human you can change for the better, with work that might not work — that’s what art is.”
Flannery O’Connor on Dogma, Belief, and the Difference Between Religion and Faith
“For me a dogma is only a gateway to contemplation and is an instrument of freedom and not of restriction.”
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