Henry Miller on Art, War, and the Future of Humanity

“It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.”

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So You Want To Be a Writer: Charles Bukowski’s No-Nonsense Antidote to the “Tortured Genius” Mythos of Creativity

“unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it.”

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Freud on Creative Writing and Daydreaming

“The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real.”

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Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski, Susan Sontag, Harper Lee, and Other Literary Greats on Censorship

A century of conviction celebrating the freedom to read.

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Steven Johnson on the “Peer Progressive” Movement and What the Internet Wants

“When you give people more control over the flow of information and decision making in their communities, their social health improves — incrementally, in fits and starts, but also inexorably.”

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