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Beware the Rise of the Pseudo-Intellectual: Tom Wolfe’s Boston University Commencement Address
“We live in an age in which ideas, important ideas, are worn like articles of fashion.”
The Sense of Style: Psycholinguist Steven Pinker on the Art and Science of Beautiful Writing
“Every generation believes that the kids today are degrading the language and taking civilization down with it.”
James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society
“A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.”
Chinua Achebe on the Meaning of Life and the Writer’s Responsibility in the World
The difference between blind optimism and the urge to improve the world’s imperfection.
Why the Best Roadmap to an Interesting Life is the One You Make Up as You Go Along: Daniel Pink’s Commencement Address
“Sometimes, the only way to discover who you are or what life you should lead is to do less PLANNING and more LIVING — to burst the double bubble of comfort and convention and just DO stuff.”
On “Beauty”: Marilynne Robinson on Writing, What Storytelling Can Learn from Science, and the Splendors of Uncertainty
“We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.”
William Faulkner on Writing, the Human Dilemma, and Why We Create: A Rare 1958 Recording
“It’s the most satisfying occupation man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to, so there’s always something to wake up tomorrow morning to do.”
Werner Herzog on Creativity, Self-Reliance, and How to Make a Living Doing What You Love
“If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.”
Artist Francis Bacon on the Role of Suffering and Self-Knowledge in Creative Expression
“An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.”
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