Reads tagged with “letters”

Do Everything Well: Lord Chesterfield on the Art of Dress

“Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.”

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Italo Calvino’s Poetic Résumé

“Prepared for the Worst, and becoming more and more dissatisfied with the Best, I am already anticipating the incomparable joys of growing old.”

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How Charles Eames Proposed to Ray Eames: His Disarming 1941 Handwritten Love Letter

A modernist fairy tale of true partnership.

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Italo Calvino on Writing: Selected Wisdom from a Lifetime of Letters

“One writes most of all in order to take part in a collective enterprise.”

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June 6, 1917: Edna St. Vincent Millay Almost Gets Banned from Her Own Graduation

“I always said … that I had come in over the fence & would probably leave the same way.”

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Kids on Gender Politics: Amusing and Poignant Responses from Children in the 1970s-1980s

Minors counter major hegemony with disarming clarity.

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Turning Abruptly from Friendship to Love: Sartre’s Piercing Love Letter to Simone Jollivet

“I am mastering my love for you and turning it inwards as a constituent element of myself.”

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The Secret to Learning Anything: Albert Einstein’s Advice to His Son

“That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes.”

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Conjuring Cohesion and Purpose: How Ursula Nordstrom Cultivated Maurice Sendak’s Genius

“That is the creative artist — a penalty of the creative artist — wanting to make order out of chaos.”

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14 Rules for Travel and Life: Founding Father Benjamin Rush’s Advice to His Young Son

“Remember at all times that while you are seeing the world, the world will see you.”

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Reads tagged with “letters”

“Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.”

“Prepared for the Worst, and becoming more and more dissatisfied with the Best, I am already anticipating the incomparable joys of growing old.”

A modernist fairy tale of true partnership.

“One writes most of all in order to take part in a collective enterprise.”

“I always said … that I had come in over the fence & would probably leave the same way.”

Minors counter major hegemony with disarming clarity.

“I am mastering my love for you and turning it inwards as a constituent element of myself.”

“That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes.”

“That is the creative artist — a penalty of the creative artist — wanting to make order out of chaos.”

“Remember at all times that while you are seeing the world, the world will see you.”

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