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Mary McCarthy on Human Nature, Moral Choice, and How We Decide Whether Evil Is Forgivable
“One has to assume that every man is a thinking reed and a noble nature, even if only part-time.”
The Brownstone: Trailblazing Graphic Designer Paula Scher’s Lovely Vintage Children’s Book About Living with Each Other’s Differences
Playful assurance that however vast our differences, there is always a mutually satisfying solution to be found.
Bukowski on Writing, Art, and the Courage to Create Outside Society’s Forms of Approval
“Art is its own excuse, and it’s either Art or it’s something else. It’s either a poem or a piece of cheese.”
A Living Obituary: Faulkner’s Beautiful Epitaph for Himself
“He made the books and he died.”
How to Own Your Story: Vivian Gornick on the Art of Personal Narrative and Nuanced Storytelling
“The memoirist … must engage with the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it’s the wisdom — or rather the movement toward it — that counts.”
On the Soul-Sustaining Necessity of Resisting Self-Comparison and Fighting Cynicism: A Commencement Address
“In its passivity and resignation, cynicism is a hardening, a calcification of the soul. Hope is a stretching of its ligaments, a limber reach for something greater.”
Barbara Walters on How to Be There for the Newly Bereaved and Heartbroken
“Things being what they are in the world today, we are more and more driven to depend on one another’s sympathy and friendship in order to survive emotionally.”
The Paradox of Identical Twins and What It Reveals About the Psychology of Personal Identity and the Cult of Personality
“The way we treat identical twins is strikingly similar to the way we treat celebrities.”
Beloved Composer Leonard Bernstein on the Importance of Believing in Each Other and How Art Fortifies Our Mutual Dignity
“We must learn to know ourselves better through art. We must rely more on the unconscious, inspirational side of man… We must believe, without fear, in people.”
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