Reads tagged with “books”

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.”

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John W. Gardner on What Children Can Teach Us About Risk, Failure, and Personal Growth

“Our fear of failure … assures the progressive narrowing of the personality.”

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What Makes a Baby: An Inclusive and Imaginative Illustrated Guide to the Modern Family

A playful illustrated primer for every kind of family and every kind of kid.

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Emerson on the Two Pillars of Friendship

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.”

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Charity and Sylvia: The Remarkable Story of How Two Women Married Each Other in Early America

“For 40 years… they have shared each other’s occupations and pleasures and works of charity while in health, and watched over each other tenderly in sickness.”

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Reconfiguring Reality: An Atlas of Alternative Maps by Ed Ruscha, Yoko Ono, Damien Hirst, John Maeda, Kevin Kelly, John Baldessari, and Other Icons

“Maps are errors to arrive at truth.”

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C.S. Lewis’s Ideal Daily Routine

“It is essential of the happy life that a man would have almost no mail.”

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Barbara Walters on Gossip

“You’re never just a spectator: unless you put a stop to it, you’re a participant.”

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Jane Goodall Answers the Proust Questionnaire

A dead writer meets one of the greatest scientists alive.

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Bukowski’s Letter of Gratitude to the Man Who Helped Him Quit His Soul-Sucking Job and Become a Full-Time Writer

“To not have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.”

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Reads tagged with “books”

“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.”

“Our fear of failure … assures the progressive narrowing of the personality.”

A playful illustrated primer for every kind of family and every kind of kid.

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.”

“For 40 years… they have shared each other’s occupations and pleasures and works of charity while in health, and watched over each other tenderly in sickness.”

“Maps are errors to arrive at truth.”

“It is essential of the happy life that a man would have almost no mail.”

“You’re never just a spectator: unless you put a stop to it, you’re a participant.”

A dead writer meets one of the greatest scientists alive.

“To not have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.”

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