Search results for “Kurt Vonnegut”
Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Anger, Forgiveness, and What Maturity Really Means
“To forgive is to assume a larger identity than the person who was first hurt.”
In Defense of the Wandering Heart: How Crushes Fortify Your Primary Relationship
“The marriages that last are the ones in which the two members regularly develop (but do not act upon) extramarital infatuations.”
The Power of One True Believer: Samuel Beckett’s Beautiful Homage to His Greatest Champion
“I owe him everything.”
Bertrand Russell on the Vital Role of Boredom and “Fruitful Monotony” in Human Flourishing
“A generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation… in whom every vital impulse slowly withers, as though they were cut flowers in a vase.”
The Psychology of Flow: What Game Design Reveals about the Deliberate Tensions of Great Writing
“The books that give us the most pleasure, the deepest pleasure, combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release.”
The Workhorse and the Butterfly: Ann Patchett on Writing and Why Self-Forgiveness Is the Most Important Ingredient of Great Art
“The ability to forgive oneself … is the key to making art, and very possibly the key to finding any semblance of happiness in life.”
The Art of Motherfuckitude: Cheryl Strayed’s Advice to an Aspiring Writer on Faith and Humility
“Writing is hard for every last one of us… Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.”
Reinventing the Secular Sermon: Remarkable Commencement Addresses by Nora Ephron, David Foster Wallace, Ira Glass, and More
How to live life “on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.”
The Definitive Reading List of the 14 Best Books of 2014 Overall
From the origin of the universe to the unusual stories behind people’s tattoos, by way of secular spirituality, the hummingbird effect, and Werner Herzog.
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