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How To Stay Sane: The Art of Revising Your Inner Storytelling

“Our stories give shape to our inchoate, disparate, fleeting impressions of everyday life.”

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On Art and Government: The Poem Robert Frost Didn’t Read at JFK’s Inauguration

“And this is no aristocratic joke / At the expense of negligible folk.”

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Vladimir Nabokov on Literature and Life: A Rare 1969 BBC Interview

“The arrows of adverse criticism cannot scratch, let alone pierce, the shield of what disappointed archers call my ‘self-assurance.'”

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The Best Music Books of 2012

From the neuroscience of talent to the illustrated Beatles, by way of Zen Buddhism and how creativity works.

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The Science of Our Optimism Bias and the Life-Cycle of Happiness

“To make progress, we need to be able to imagine alternative realities, and not just any old reality but a better one.”

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Francis Bacon on Love: Thoughts on the Sublime Emotion from the Father of Empiricism

“It is impossible to love, and to be wise.”

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Vladimir Nabokov on What Makes a Good Reader

“A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader.”

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How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes: Lessons in Mindfulness and Creativity from the Great Detective

“A man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.”

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More Than Human: Tim Flach’s Striking Portraits of Animals

Sentient beings like you’ve never seen them before.

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The Best History Books of 2012

From Mark Twain’s diary to the visual history of evolution, by way of Vonnegut, Sontag, and Klimt.

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Search results for “memory”

“Our stories give shape to our inchoate, disparate, fleeting impressions of everyday life.”

“And this is no aristocratic joke / At the expense of negligible folk.”

“The arrows of adverse criticism cannot scratch, let alone pierce, the shield of what disappointed archers call my ‘self-assurance.'”

From the neuroscience of talent to the illustrated Beatles, by way of Zen Buddhism and how creativity works.

“To make progress, we need to be able to imagine alternative realities, and not just any old reality but a better one.”

“It is impossible to love, and to be wise.”

“A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader.”

“A man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.”

Sentient beings like you’ve never seen them before.

From Mark Twain’s diary to the visual history of evolution, by way of Vonnegut, Sontag, and Klimt.

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