Reads tagged with “diaries”
Susan Sontag’s Bulletpointed Bodily Self-Portrait
Low blood pressure, loves sleep but grinds teeth, craves pure sugar but dislikes desserts.
Frida Kahlo’s DIY Paint Recipe
How to emulate artistic genius via a home-cooked emulsion.
Swiss Philosopher Henri-Frédéric Amiel on Love, Its Torments, and Its Redemptions
“Do not amend by reasoning, but by example; approach feeling by feeling; do not hope to excite love except by love.”
Brian Eno on Creativity, Confidence, and What Gives Value to a Work of Art
“Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.”
Gun Control Fail, 1944 Edition
“Lady, we can’t do anything about a threat. We have to wait until he acts.” “You mean after I am shot?”
Thoreau on Friendship, Consciousness, and Seeing Kinship Across Our Creaturely Differences
“A man [is] commonly a locked-up chest to us, to open whom, unless we have the key of sympathy, will make our hearts bleed.”
How Inviting the Unknown Helps Us Know Life More Richly
“The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.”
The Quartet of Creativity: 28-Year-Old Susan Sontag on the Four People a Great Writer Must Be
“A great writer has all 4 — but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.”
Cats, Guns, and Books: William S. Burroughs’s Daily Routine
For breakfast, “a salted soft-boiled egg with toast, or perhaps fresh-squeezed lemonade, and two cups of very sweet tea.”
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