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How Alfred Hitchcock Changed One Boy’s Life
How Alfred Hitchcock Changed One Boy’s Life

“Many times it takes such a spark as this to help a youngster out of his shell and on the road to confidence.”

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The Interplay of Inspiration and Work Ethic: Tchaikovsky on Creativity and Productivity
The Interplay of Inspiration and Work Ethic: Tchaikovsky on Creativity and Productivity

“A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.”

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This Is a Monomania: Balzac on Falling in Love
This Is a Monomania: Balzac on Falling in Love

“I cannot bring together two ideas that you do not interpose yourself between them.”

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18-Year-Old Sylvia Plath on Loving Everybody and Living with Curiosity
18-Year-Old Sylvia Plath on Loving Everybody and Living with Curiosity

“Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.”

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Rilke’s Love Letters
Rilke’s Love Letters

“Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.”

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Henry Miller on the Beautiful Balance of Giving and Receiving
Henry Miller on the Beautiful Balance of Giving and Receiving

“It’s only when we demand that we are hurt.”

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Hemingway Shoots His Cat
Hemingway Shoots His Cat

“Have had to shoot people but never anyone I knew and loved for eleven years. Nor anyone that purred with two broken legs.”

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Vita Sackville-West’s Love Letter to Virginia Woolf
Vita Sackville-West’s Love Letter to Virginia Woolf

“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia.”

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Fatherly Advice from Famous Dads
Fatherly Advice from Famous Dads

“The secret of success is concentrating interest in life… interest in the small things of nature… In other words to be fully awake to everything.”

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All Ideas Are Second-Hand: Mark Twain’s Magnificent Letter to Helen Keller About the Myth of Originality
All Ideas Are Second-Hand: Mark Twain’s Magnificent Letter to Helen Keller About the Myth of Originality

“The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances — is plagiarism.”

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