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The only sensible way to improve your writing is by echoing the work of other writers. Good artists copy and great artists steal quotes from Picasso.
Maggie Appleton • The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays
All of us face the assault of time, but few must reckon with mortality before the eyes of the world.
Vibes, once warm and fuzzy, were now seismic tectonic plates beneath the feet of culture.
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“I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.”
― Georgia O'Keefe
And if communities are spaces for belonging, cohorts are spaces for becoming.
Brian Dell • LF11 - Cohort Futures
Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insight without endangering the security of our prior assumptions.
– Robert Grudin, The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation
We live in an era of unraveling scripts
Aaron Z. Lewis • Being Your Selves: Identity R&D on alt Twitter
That essential friction—between how you see yourself and how the world sees you—occupied the thoughts of every girl I spoke to. Coming of age is that moment when awareness descends on you like an itchy wool sweater. How do you move around it? Can you just take it off?