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Christopher Hitchens on Mortality
Christopher Hitchens on Mortality

“To the dumb question ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?”

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The Science of “Chunking,” Working Memory, and How Pattern Recognition Fuels Creativity
The Science of “Chunking,” Working Memory, and How Pattern Recognition Fuels Creativity

“Generating interesting connections between disparate subjects is what makes art so fascinating to create and to view… We are forced to contemplate a new, higher pattern that binds lower ones together.”

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How to Read Like a Writer
How to Read Like a Writer

“All the elements of good writing depend on the writer’s skill in choosing one word instead of another.”

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How To Run Right
How To Run Right

You’ve been doing it wrong — 5 do’s and don’ts.

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The Forms of Things Unknown: A Timeless 1963 Meditation on the Role of the Creative Arts in Society
The Forms of Things Unknown: A Timeless 1963 Meditation on the Role of the Creative Arts in Society

“Art must lead beyond the arts, to an awareness and a share of mutuality.”

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Words David Foster Wallace’s Mom Invented
Words David Foster Wallace’s Mom Invented

Because language is a living organism and creativity the sum total of our life experience.

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Why Emotional Excess is Essential to Writing and Creativity
Why Emotional Excess is Essential to Writing and Creativity

“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”

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Anaïs Nin on Self-Publishing, the Magic of Letterpress, and the Joy of Handcraft
Anaïs Nin on Self-Publishing, the Magic of Letterpress, and the Joy of Handcraft

“You pit your faculties against concrete problems. The victories are concrete, definable, touchable.”

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How Consciousness Evolved and Why a Planetary “Übermind” Is Inevitable
How Consciousness Evolved and Why a Planetary “Übermind” Is Inevitable

“There is no reason why this web of hypertrophied consciousness cannot spread to the planets and, ultimately, beyond the stellar night to the galaxy.”

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Bear Despair: A Charming Illustrated Wordless Story of Obsessiveness and Perseverance
Bear Despair: A Charming Illustrated Wordless Story of Obsessiveness and Perseverance

Cross-hatched cross-sections of determination.

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