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The Elusive Art of Inner Wholeness and How to Stop Hiding Our Souls
The Elusive Art of Inner Wholeness and How to Stop Hiding Our Souls

“Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.”

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Are Writers Born or Made? Jack Kerouac on the Crucial Difference Between Talent and Genius
Are Writers Born or Made? Jack Kerouac on the Crucial Difference Between Talent and Genius

“Genius gives birth, talent delivers.”

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Celebrated Writers on the Creative Benefits of Keeping a Diary
Celebrated Writers on the Creative Benefits of Keeping a Diary

Reflections on the value of recording our inner lives from Woolf, Thoreau, Sontag, Emerson, Nin, Plath, and more.

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Werner Herzog on Creativity, Self-Reliance, and How to Make a Living Doing What You Love
Werner Herzog on Creativity, Self-Reliance, and How to Make a Living Doing What You Love

“If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.”

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Jeanette Winterson on Time, Language, Reading, and How Art Creates a Sanctified Space for the Human Spirit
Jeanette Winterson on Time, Language, Reading, and How Art Creates a Sanctified Space for the Human Spirit

“Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don’t accept things for their face value; you don’t have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.”

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Walter Benjamin on the Key Qualities of the Successful Person and How to Master the Art of Asking for What You Want
Walter Benjamin on the Key Qualities of the Successful Person and How to Master the Art of Asking for What You Want

“And please believe me when I tell you: successful people are never sore losers.”

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Mary Oliver on the Magic of Punctuation and a Reading of Her Soul-Stretching Poem “Seven White Butterflies”
Mary Oliver on the Magic of Punctuation and a Reading of Her Soul-Stretching Poem “Seven White Butterflies”

“All eternity is in the moment.”

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A Visual History of Romantic Friendship
A Visual History of Romantic Friendship

“Smashes,” “crushes,” “spoons,” and other curious nineteenth-century relationship varieties.

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Emerson on the Two Pillars of Friendship
Emerson on the Two Pillars of Friendship

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.”

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Bohemians: A Graphic History of Creative Mavericks
Bohemians: A Graphic History of Creative Mavericks

Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Josephine Baker, Henry Miller, Gertrude Stein, Thelonious Monk, and other creative mavericks of semi-subversive status.

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