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Reads tagged with “letters”

The Love Letters of Pioneering Victorian Photojournalist Fannie Benjamin Johnston
The Love Letters of Pioneering Victorian Photojournalist Fannie Benjamin Johnston

“If I have been proud of you and your work and put you on a pedestal, as you say, please let me keep you there, for you deserve it surely and that is my way of loving.”

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The Interpretation of Leonard Bernstein’s Dreams
The Interpretation of Leonard Bernstein’s Dreams

Freud, Jung, sexual identity, and the creative process.

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20-Year-Old Hunter S. Thompson’s Surprisingly Sage Advice on How to Find Your Purpose and Live a Meaningful Life
20-Year-Old Hunter S. Thompson’s Surprisingly Sage Advice on How to Find Your Purpose and Live a Meaningful Life

“It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.”

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Pioneering Anthropologist Margaret Mead’s Beautiful Love Letters to Her Soul Mate
Pioneering Anthropologist Margaret Mead’s Beautiful Love Letters to Her Soul Mate

“The thought of you now makes me a little unbearably happy.”

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E. B. White on Why He Wrote Charlotte’s Web, Plus His Rare Illustrated Manuscripts
E. B. White on Why He Wrote Charlotte’s Web, Plus His Rare Illustrated Manuscripts

“A book is a sneeze.”

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Kurt Vonnegut’s Life-Advice to His Children
Kurt Vonnegut’s Life-Advice to His Children

Educate yourself, welcome life’s messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.

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Sylvia Plath’s Unseen Drawings, Edited by Her Daughter and Illuminated in Her Private Letters
Sylvia Plath’s Unseen Drawings, Edited by Her Daughter and Illuminated in Her Private Letters

“It gives me such a sense of peace to draw; more than prayer, walks, anything. I can lose myself completely in the line, lose myself in it.”

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Naomi Wolf’s Spectacular, No-Bullshit Letter of Advice to Her Younger Self
Naomi Wolf’s Spectacular, No-Bullshit Letter of Advice to Her Younger Self

“Don’t gossip; it makes you untrustworthy. . . . Kindness is everything.”

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Jazz Legend Wynton Marsalis on the Magic of Music
Jazz Legend Wynton Marsalis on the Magic of Music

“That’s the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don’t know if they’ll like it, but you offer it.”

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Ernest Hemingway on How New York Can Drive You to Suicide
Ernest Hemingway on How New York Can Drive You to Suicide

“I have understood for the first time how men can commit suicide simply because of too many things in business piling up ahead of them that they can’t get through.”

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