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Galileo on Why We Read and How Books Give Us Superhuman Powers
“What sublimity of mind was his who dreamed of finding means to communicate his deepest thoughts to any other person, though distant by mighty intervals of place and time!”
Kurt Vonnegut’s Lost NYU Lecture on What It Takes to Be a Writer, Animated
“Nothing means anything — except the artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole, though no such holes exist.”
Hunter S. Thompson on Violence, Vengeance, and the Only True Fix for Our Destructive Impulses
“One of the most important things is to recognize that we do have this mounting violence in us, and then to find the reasons.”
Spineless: Susan Middleton’s Mesmerizing Photographs of Marine Invertebrates
Visual verses celebrating the glorious grandeur of life on our pale blue dot.
Ray Bradbury on Storytelling, Friendship, and Why He Never Learned to Drive: A Lost Vintage Interview, Found and Animated
“You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. And then your public reads you and it begins to gather around.”
Thomas Wolfe on Ambition, Gratitude, and the True Measure of Success, in Letters to His Mother
“It is not all bad, but it is not all good, it is not all ugly, but it is not all beautiful, it is life, life, life — the only thing that matters.”
Art as a Form of Active Prayer and What Writers Really Labor For
“Immerse yourself in the common ground of the universe so that your true voice — not the egoistic voice that clamors vainly for power (for it will ruin you if you listen to it) — your authentic voice … may be heard.”
A Biologist-Turned-Buddhist and His Philosopher Father on the Nature of the Self and the True Measure of Personal Strength
“You first need to have an ego in order to be aware that it doesn’t exist.”
How to Change Minds: Blaise Pascal on the Art of Persuasion
“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.”
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