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Ursula K. Le Guin on Being a Man
A journey to where the semicolon meets the soul.
George Orwell on Writing and the Four Questions Great Writers Must Ask Themselves
“By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.”
The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on Growing Old, the Perils of Success, and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart
“If you can fall in love again and again… if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical… you’ve got it half licked.”
Malcolm Gladwell on Criticism, Tolerance, and Changing Your Mind
“That’s your responsibility as a person, as a human being — to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don’t contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you’re not thinking.”
Animal Madness: How Deciphering Mental Illness in Our Fellow Beings Helps Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves
“To selflessly love another creature is to be open to loving other humans, who are animals as much as pandas, cows, or Shih Tzus.”
The Curse of Meh: Why Being Extraordinary Is Not a Matter of Being Universally Liked but of Being Polarizing
“To be universally liked is to be relatively ignored.”
Barbara Walters on the Art of Conversation, How to Talk to Bores, and What Truman Capote Teaches Us About Being Interesting
“Things being what they are in the world today, we are more and more driven to depend on one another’s sympathy and friendship in order to survive…”
George Orwell on Money, Taxes, the Government, and the Real Measure of Patriotism
“Towards the government I feel no scruples and would dodge paying the tax if I could. Yet I would give my life for England readily enough, if I thought it necessary.”
Susan Sontag on the Crucial Difference Between Being in the Middle and Being at the Center
Why true neutrality is not an abstinence from taking sides of but an act of compassion.
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