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Thoreau on Friendship, Consciousness, and Seeing Kinship Across Our Creaturely Differences
Thoreau on Friendship, Consciousness, and Seeing Kinship Across Our Creaturely Differences

“A man [is] commonly a locked-up chest to us, to open whom, unless we have the key of sympathy, will make our hearts bleed.”

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How Inviting the Unknown Helps Us Know Life More Richly
How Inviting the Unknown Helps Us Know Life More Richly

“The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.”

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The Quartet of Creativity: 28-Year-Old Susan Sontag on the Four People a Great Writer Must Be
The Quartet of Creativity: 28-Year-Old Susan Sontag on the Four People a Great Writer Must Be

“A great writer has all 4 — but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.”

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Cats, Guns, and Books: William S. Burroughs’s Daily Routine
Cats, Guns, and Books: William S. Burroughs’s Daily Routine

For breakfast, “a salted soft-boiled egg with toast, or perhaps fresh-squeezed lemonade, and two cups of very sweet tea.”

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Literary Pets: The Cats, Dogs, and Birds Famous Authors Loved
Literary Pets: The Cats, Dogs, and Birds Famous Authors Loved

Twain and Bambino, Browning and Flush, Dickens and Grip, Hemingway and Uncle Willie, and more.

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Frida Kahlo’s DIY Paint Recipe
Frida Kahlo’s DIY Paint Recipe

How to emulate artistic genius via a home-cooked emulsion.

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Swiss Philosopher Henri-Frédéric Amiel on Love, Its Torments, and Its Redemptions
Swiss Philosopher Henri-Frédéric Amiel on Love, Its Torments, and Its Redemptions

“Do not amend by reasoning, but by example; approach feeling by feeling; do not hope to excite love except by love.”

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Brian Eno on Creativity, Confidence, and How Attention Creates Value
Brian Eno on Creativity, Confidence, and How Attention Creates Value

“Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.”

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Gun Control Fail, 1944 Edition
Gun Control Fail, 1944 Edition

“Lady, we can’t do anything about a threat. We have to wait until he acts.” “You mean after I am shot?”

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Susan Sontag on Why Lists Appeal to Us, Plus Her Listed Likes and Dislikes
Susan Sontag on Why Lists Appeal to Us, Plus Her Listed Likes and Dislikes

How lists confer value and guarantee existence.

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