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Helen Keller on Optimism

“The struggle which evil necessitates is one of the greatest blessings. It makes us strong, patient, helpful men and women. It lets us into the soul of things and teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”

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Italo Calvino on Writing: Selected Wisdom from a Lifetime of Letters

“One writes most of all in order to take part in a collective enterprise.”

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Be All Your Selves: Joss Whedon’s 2013 Wesleyan Commencement Address on Embracing Our Inner Contradictions

“Identity is something that you are constantly earning. It is a process that you must be active in.”

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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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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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Maya Angelou on Freedom: A 1973 Conversation with Bill Moyers

“You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all.”

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Conjuring Cohesion and Purpose: How Ursula Nordstrom Cultivated Maurice Sendak’s Genius

“That is the creative artist — a penalty of the creative artist — wanting to make order out of chaos.”

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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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Letters to Ms.: How Mary Thom Built “Social Media” for Women’s Rights in the 1970s

Celebrating the invisible art of making a movement visible.

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Brand Thinking: Seth Godin, Malcolm Gladwell, Dan Pink, and Other Mavens on How and Why We Define Ourselves Through Stuff

“The modern version of introspection is the sum total of all those highly individualized choices that we make about the material content of our lives.”

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Search results for “A lot of people think or believe or know they feel”

“The struggle which evil necessitates is one of the greatest blessings. It makes us strong, patient, helpful men and women. It lets us into the soul of things and teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”

“One writes most of all in order to take part in a collective enterprise.”

“Identity is something that you are constantly earning. It is a process that you must be active in.”

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

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

“You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all.”

“That is the creative artist — a penalty of the creative artist — wanting to make order out of chaos.”

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

Celebrating the invisible art of making a movement visible.

“The modern version of introspection is the sum total of all those highly individualized choices that we make about the material content of our lives.”

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