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Kierkegaard on Why Anxiety Powers Creativity Rather Than Hindering It

“Because it is possible to create — creating one’s self, willing to be one’s self… — one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.”

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How Charles Eames Proposed to Ray Eames: His Disarming 1941 Handwritten Love Letter

A modernist fairy tale of true partnership.

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Amanda Palmer on Creativity as Connecting Dots and the Terrifying Joy of Sharing Your Art Online

“We can only connect the dots that we collect.”

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Raymond Chandler on Writing: A Lifetime of Wisdom on the Craft from His Private Letters

“Writers … have to fight the impulse to live up to someone else’s idea of what they are.”

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Why War: Einstein and Freud’s Little-Known Correspondence on Violence, Peace, and Human Nature

“Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise.”

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How Inviting the Unknown Helps Us Know Life More Richly

“The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.”

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How We Spend Our Days Is How We Spend Our Lives: Annie Dillard on Choosing Presence Over Productivity

“The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.”

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Wild Ones: What an Obscure Endangered Butterfly Teaches Us About Parenthood and Being Human

“Maybe you have to believe in the value of everything to believe in the value of anything.”

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Our Objects, Ourselves

“If one changes internally, one should not continue to live with the same objects.”

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Timeless Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers

Hemingway, Didion, Baldwin, Fitzgerald, Sontag, Vonnegut, Bradbury, Morrison, Orwell, Le Guin, Woolf, and other titans of literature.

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Search results for “henry miller”

“Because it is possible to create — creating one’s self, willing to be one’s self… — one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.”

A modernist fairy tale of true partnership.

“We can only connect the dots that we collect.”

“Writers … have to fight the impulse to live up to someone else’s idea of what they are.”

“Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise.”

“The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.”

“The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.”

“Maybe you have to believe in the value of everything to believe in the value of anything.”

“If one changes internally, one should not continue to live with the same objects.”

Hemingway, Didion, Baldwin, Fitzgerald, Sontag, Vonnegut, Bradbury, Morrison, Orwell, Le Guin, Woolf, and other titans of literature.

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