Reads tagged with “letters”

The Mahatma and the Poet: Tagore’s Letters to Gandhi on Power, Morality, and Science

“Passive resistance is a force which is not necessarily moral in itself; it can be used against truth as well as for it.”

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Seventeen-Year-Old Virginia Woolf on Nature, Imitation and the Arts

“All the Arts … imitate as far as they can the one great truth that all can see.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald on the Secret to Great Writing: Letters of Advice to a Friend’s Teenage Daughter and to His Own

“Nothing any good isn’t hard.”

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In Defense of the Fluid Self: Why Anaïs Nin Turned Down a Harper’s Bazaar Profile

“I am more interested in human beings than in writing, more interested in lovemaking than in writing, more interested in living than in writing.”

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Amelia Earhart on Marriage

“I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage.”

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Anton Chekhov on the 8 Qualities of Cultured People

“They are sincere, and dread lying like fire. They don’t lie even in small things.”

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Sherwood Anderson on Art and Life: A Letter of Advice to His Teenage Son

“The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.”

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Richard Dawkins on Evidence in Science, Life and Love: A Letter to His 10-Year-Old Daughter

“All through the day when you are with somebody who loves you, you see and hear lots of little tidbits of evidence, and they all add up.”

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Rent Is Too Damn High, Vonnegut Edition: The Beloved Author’s Housing Woes

“You wonder what creates beatniks? Landlords!”

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Fiona Apple’s Stirring Handwritten Letter About Her Dying Dog

“I wish we could also appreciate the time that lies right beside the end of time.”

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Reads tagged with “letters”

“Passive resistance is a force which is not necessarily moral in itself; it can be used against truth as well as for it.”

“All the Arts … imitate as far as they can the one great truth that all can see.”

“Nothing any good isn’t hard.”

“I am more interested in human beings than in writing, more interested in lovemaking than in writing, more interested in living than in writing.”

“I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage.”

“They are sincere, and dread lying like fire. They don’t lie even in small things.”

“The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.”

“All through the day when you are with somebody who loves you, you see and hear lots of little tidbits of evidence, and they all add up.”

“You wonder what creates beatniks? Landlords!”

“I wish we could also appreciate the time that lies right beside the end of time.”

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