Reads tagged with “letters”
Brave Genius: How the Unlikely Friendship of Scientist Jacques Monod and Philosopher Albert Camus Shaped Modern Culture
“Being aware of one’s life, one’s revolt, one’s freedom, and to the maximum, is living, and to the maximum.”
What George Eliot Teaches Us About the Life-Cycle of Happiness and the Science of Why We’re Happier When We’re Older
“One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.”
James Joyce’s Humorous Morphology of the Many Outrageous Myths about Him
How the celebrated author earned a reputation as a lazy coke-head movie mogul with a peculiar clock habit.
Isaac Asimov’s Wise and Witty Response to Those Who Question the Value of Investing in Space Exploration
“The people of the United States spend exactly as much money on booze alone as on the space program.”
France Is Free: Anaïs Nin and Ernest Hemingway on the Liberation of Paris, August 19, 1944
“One is stunned before catastrophe, one is stunned by happiness, by peace, by the knowledge of millions of people free from pain and death.”
The Beautiful and Frightening Experience of How Science Is Done: Richard Feynman’s Letter to James Watson about The Double Helix
A manifesto for messiness and the value of the subjective in the advancement of knowledge.
Italo Calvino on America
“America … is the land of the richness of life, of the fullness of every hour in the day, the country which gives you the sense of carrying out a huge amount of activity, even though in fact you achieve very little, the country where solitude is impossible.”
Emma Darwin’s Stirring Love Letter to Charles
“I feel in my inmost heart your admirable qualities & feelings & all I would hope is that you might direct them upwards.”
E. B. White’s Love Letter to His Wife on the Occasion of Her Pregnancy, “Written” by Their Dog
“White has been stewing around for two days now, a little bit worried because he is not sure that he has made you realize how glad he is that there is to be what the column writer in the Mirror calls a blessed event.”
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