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Oliver Sacks on the Three Essential Elements of Creativity
“It takes a special energy, over and above one’s creative potential, a special audacity or subversiveness, to strike out in a new direction once one is settled.”
Inside Oliver Sacks’s Creative Process: The Beloved Writer’s Never-Before-Seen Manuscripts, Brainstorm Sheets, and Notes on Writing, Creativity, and the Brain
Inside the “buzzing, blooming chaos” of a brilliant mind at work.
Oliver Sacks on Evolving Our Notions of Normalcy to Include the Differently Abled
“If a tenth or a quarter of the population have some condition, it has to be accepted as a legitimate form of life.”
The Art of Medicine: W.H. Auden on What Makes a Great Physician and How He Influenced Oliver Sacks
“A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist.”
The Lost Mariner: A Beautiful Animated Short Film About Memory, Inspired by Oliver Sacks
“You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives.”
Oliver Sacks on What a Pacific Island Can Teach Us About Treating Ill People as Whole People
On the redemptive acceptance of the terminally ill as “a living part of the community.”
Insomniac City: Bill Hayes’s Extraordinary Love Letter to New York, Oliver Sacks, and Love Itself
“The most we can do is to write — intelligently, creatively, evocatively — about what it is like living in the world at this time.”
Oliver Sacks on Death, Destiny, and the Redemptive Radiance of a Life Fully Lived
“It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.”
The Life of the Mind: Oliver Sacks’s 121 Formative and Favorite Books from a Lifetime of Reading
From Descartes to Curie to the Oxford English Dictionary, a biblio-anatomy of an unrepeatable mind.
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