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The Value of Not Understanding Everything: Grace Paley’s Advice to Aspiring Writers
“Luckily for art, life is difficult, hard to understand, useless, and mysterious.”
Oliver Jeffers on the Paradox of Ownership and the Allure of Duality
“We only own something because everybody agrees that we do.”
The Workhorse and the Butterfly: Ann Patchett on Writing and Why Self-Forgiveness Is the Most Important Ingredient of Great Art
“The ability to forgive oneself … is the key to making art, and very possibly the key to finding any semblance of happiness in life.”
The Art of Motherfuckitude: Cheryl Strayed’s Advice to an Aspiring Writer on Faith and Humility
“Writing is hard for every last one of us… Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.”
The Artist’s Reality: Mark Rothko’s Little-Known Writings on Art, Artists, and What the Notion of Plasticity Reveals about Storytelling
“While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.”
A Stop-Motion Love Letter to the Power of Curiosity
“The more you know, the more you want to know… the more connections you can make between the different bits of knowledge… the more ideas you have, which is why curiosity is really the wellspring of creativity.”
Einstein, Gödel, and Our Strange Experience of Time: Rebecca Goldstein on How Relativity Rattled the Flow of Existence
“Is there anything we know more intimately than the fleetingness of time, the transience of each and every moment?”
The Road to Character: David Brooks on the Art of Stumbling, “Résumé Virtues” vs. “Eulogy Virtues,” and the Humility Code of Living a Meaningful Life
“We are all stumblers, and the beauty and meaning of life are in the stumbling.”
The Well of Being: An Extraordinary Children’s Book for Grownups about the Art of Living with Openhearted Immediacy
A lyrical invitation to awaken from the trance of the limiting stories we tell ourselves and just live.
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