Reads tagged with “books”

Djuna Barnes Interviews James Joyce in 1922: The Iconic Irishman’s Most Significant Interview

“He turned to quill and paper, for so he could arrange, in the necessary silence, the abundant inadequacies of life, as a laying-out of jewels — jewels with a will to decay.”

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Einstein on Fairy Tales and Education

“How far superior an education that stresses independent action and personal responsibility is to one that relies on drill, external authority and ambition.”

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In Pieces: French Illustrator Marion Fayolle’s Wordless Narratives About Human Relationships

Fragmentary glimpses of humanity at the intersection of the funny, the philosophical, and the confounding.

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March 13, 1964: What the Kitty Genovese Murder Teaches Us About Empathy, Apathy, and Our Human Predicament

“How far away do you have to be to forgive yourself for not doing whatever is in your power to do?”

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Jack Kerouac on Kindness, the Self Illusion, and the “Golden Eternity”

“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

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Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How to Live with Our Human Fragility

“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.”

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33 Books on How to Live: My Reading List for the Long Now Foundation’s Manual for Civilization

Books that help us make sense of ourselves, our world, and our place in it.

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Narrowly Selective Transparency: Susan Sontag on Photography vs. the Other Arts

“While a painting or a prose description can never be other than a narrowly selective interpretation, a photograph can be treated as a narrowly selective transparency.”

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How to Master on the Art of Getting Noticed: Austin Kleon’s Advice to Aspiring Artists

How to balance the contagiousness of raw enthusiasm with the humility of knowing we’re all in this together.

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Mary Roach on the Science of Masturbation and the Outrageous Vintage Pseudoscientific Techniques for Controlling It

A cautionary tale of what happens when religious dogmatism attempts to subvert science.

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Reads tagged with “books”

“He turned to quill and paper, for so he could arrange, in the necessary silence, the abundant inadequacies of life, as a laying-out of jewels — jewels with a will to decay.”

“How far superior an education that stresses independent action and personal responsibility is to one that relies on drill, external authority and ambition.”

Fragmentary glimpses of humanity at the intersection of the funny, the philosophical, and the confounding.

“How far away do you have to be to forgive yourself for not doing whatever is in your power to do?”

“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.”

Books that help us make sense of ourselves, our world, and our place in it.

“While a painting or a prose description can never be other than a narrowly selective interpretation, a photograph can be treated as a narrowly selective transparency.”

How to balance the contagiousness of raw enthusiasm with the humility of knowing we’re all in this together.

A cautionary tale of what happens when religious dogmatism attempts to subvert science.

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