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Favorite Books of 2019
From the hidden universe beneath our feet to delight as a countercultural force of courage and resistance, by way of Patti Smith, Toni Morrison, and the Greek myths.
Harriet Hosmer on Art and Ambition: The World’s First Successful Woman Sculptor on What It Takes to Be a Great Artist
“If one knew but one-half the difficulties an artist has to surmount… the public would be less ready to censure him for his shortcomings or slow advancement. The only remedy I know is patience with perseverance, and these are always sure, with a real honest love for art, to produce something.”
Egon Schiele on What It Means to Be an Artist and Why Visionaries Always Come from the Minority
“Envy those who see beauty in everything in the world.”
The Monarchs, Music, and the Meaning of Life: The Most Touching Deathbed Love Letter Ever Written
From butterflies to Beethoven, an ode to the heart’s uncontainable dimensions.
Eudora Welty on Friendship as an Evolutionary Mechanism for Language
“When we learned to speak to, and listen to, rather than to strike or be struck by, our fellow human beings, we found something worth keeping alive, worth possessing, for the rest of time.”
Autumn Light: Pico Iyer on Finding Beauty in Impermanence and Luminosity in Loss
“What do we have to hold on to? Only the certainty that nothing will go according to design; our hopes are newly built wooden houses, sturdy until someone drops a cigarette or match.”
“Dracula” Author Bram Stoker’s Extraordinary Love Letter to Walt Whitman
“How sweet a thing it is for a strong healthy man with a woman’s eye and a child’s wishes to feel that he can speak to a man who can be if he wishes father, and brother and wife to his soul.”
Sir Thomas Browne on the Transcendent Torture of Romantic Friendship
“United souls are not satisfied with embraces, but desire to be truly each other.”
Leonard Bernstein on Cynicism, Instant Gratification, and Why Paying Attention Is a Countercultural Act of Courage and Resistance
“There is so much inherent goodness in people that if they aren’t inhibited by traumas and are given half a chance, it shines through.”
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