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The highest purpose of fiction is to show that all people are fundamentally...
– Tom Bissell, author of Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation, echoes Ralph Ellison, Jonathan Gottschall, and recent Dutch research.
BE KIND.
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March 2013
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Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.
– Apollo and Dionysus - Ayn Rand
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You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for...
– Atlas Shrugged
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February 2013
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I will hazard a prediction. When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of...
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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January 2013
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People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless...
– Dylan Moran, What It Is
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Which is the worst thing men do?
To stink, to cheat, to torture.
Which is...
– Vladimir Nabokov on literature and life – a rare and wonderful 1969 BBC interview (via explore-blog)
Kindness first and foremost.
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Dear Abby: My boyfriend is going to be 20 years old next month. I’d like to give...
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