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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.”
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.”
Toni Morrison on How to Be Your Own Story and Reap the Rewards of Adulthood in a Culture That Fetishizes Youth
“True adulthood… is a difficult beauty, an intensely hard won glory, which commercial forces and cultural vapidity should not be permitted to deprive you of.”
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.”
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.”
Nietzsche on How to Find Yourself and the True Value of Education
“No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life.”
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.”
Teenage Sylvia Plath’s First Tragic Poem, with a Touching Remembrance by Her Mother
“Once a poem is made available to the public, the right of interpretation belongs to the reader.”
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