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David Byrne’s Lending Library
A colorful case of the mosaic of influences that is art.
Nobel Laureate André Gide on What It Really Means to Be Original and Goethe’s Paradoxical Model of Creativity
“If one does not absorb everything, one loses oneself completely. The mind must be greater than the world and contain it…”
The Art of Constructive Criticism: Trailblazing Feminist Margaret Fuller Rejects Young Thoreau and Helps Him Improve His Writing
“I can have no advice or criticism for a person so sincere; but, if I give my impression of him, I will say, ‘He says too constantly of Nature, she is mine.’ She is not yours till you have been more hers.”
How to Own Your Story: Vivian Gornick on the Art of Personal Narrative and Nuanced Storytelling
“The memoirist … must engage with the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it’s the wisdom — or rather the movement toward it — that counts.”
The Art of Science Communication: William Zinsser on How to Write Well About Science
How to master the inverse pyramid of transmuting information into wisdom.
Leisure, the Basis of Culture: An Obscure German Philosopher’s Timely 1948 Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Human Dignity in a Culture of Workaholism
“Leisure lives on affirmation. It is not the same as the absence of activity … or even as an inner quiet. It is rather like the stillness in the conversation of lovers, which is fed by their oneness.”
An Illustrated Meditation on Memory and Its Imperfections, Inspired by Borges
A most unusual invitation to repaint the reality we take for granted through the art of moral imagination.
The Value of Not Understanding Everything: Grace Paley’s Advice to Aspiring Writers
“Luckily for art, life is difficult, hard to understand, useless, and mysterious.”
William James on the Psychology of the Second Wind and What Enables Us to Transcend Our Limits
“Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake… We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.”
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