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The Shape of Music: Maurice Sendak’s Insightful Forgotten Meditation on Fantasy, Feeling, and the Key to Great Storytelling
“Fantasy and feeling lie deeper than words… and both demand a more profound, more biological expression, the primitive expression of music.”
Langston Hughes’s Ardent Public Fan Letter to the Young Nina Simone
“She is strange. So are the plays of Brendan Behan, Jean Genet, LeRoi Jones, and Bertholt Brecht. She is far-out, and at the same time common. So are raw eggs in Worcestershire and The Connection.”
Hermann Hesse on Hope, the Difficult Art of Taking Responsibility, and the Wisdom of the Inner Voice
“If you are now wondering where to look for consolation, where to seek a new and better God… he does not come to us from books, he lives within us… This God is in you too. He is most particularly in you, the dejected and despairing.”
You Belong Here: An Illustrated Antidote to Our Existential Homelessness
Sweet consolation for the lifelong alienation that afflicts each of us at different times and in different measures.
An Illustrated Meditation on the Many Meanings and Manifestation of Love
“The man in rags outside the subway station plays love notes that lift into the sky like tiny beacons of light.”
Is There a God? Stephen Hawking Gives the Definitive Answer to the Eternal Question
“The universe is the ultimate free lunch.”
The Best of Brain Pickings 2018
The splendors of the unknown, the uncertain, and the unclassifiable, truth and beauty at the intersection of poetry and science, the timeless tangles of the heart.
Truth, Justice, and Public Good: Simone Weil on Political Manipulation, the Dangers of “For” and “Against,” and How to Save Thinking from Opinion
“True attention is a state so difficult for any human creature, so violent, that any emotional disturbance can derail it. Therefore, one must always endeavour strenuously to protect one’s inner faculty of judgment against the turmoil of personal hopes and fears.”
Stephen Hawking’s Mother on Her Son’s Singular Genius and How We Expand the Boundaries of Human Knowledge
“People must think, they must go on thinking, they must try to extend the boundaries of knowledge; yet they don’t sometimes even know where to start. You don’t know where the boundaries are, do you?”
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