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Neil
“inside us is what Hemingway called a “built-in, shockproof, shit detector.” How do we know something is shit? We watch the way the deep, honest part of our mind reacts to it.”
— A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
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— A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
https://read.amazon.co.uk/kp/ks... See more
"Happiness is when you're doing what you want to be doing"
Danny Kahneman - Nobel prize-wining psychologist
There’s a scene in Hamlet where he’s pleading with his mother to break some of the destructive patterns in her life. “Assume a virtue, if you have it not,” he tells her. “Refrain to-night, and that shall lend a kind of easiness to the next abstinence; the next more easy: For use can almost change the stamp of nature.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” — Edgar Allan Poe
Most well-written characters have something they want—or something they think they want. The more fascinating characters also have something they don’t want you to know. The best ones also have something they’re not pulling off nearly as well as they think.
the British physicist Sir Arthur Eddington’s memorable explanation of how the universe works: “Something unknown is doing we don’t know what.”
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
No one you love is ever dead.
Ernest Hemingway
The story of tomorrow begins on the blank page of today.
Shortly after starting a creative production company, Donald Glover was asked about why he did it. “I got bored with people saying, like, 'This world is shit,’” Glover said. “It’s kind of like when people say, ‘Oh, this traffic is so bad.’ I’m like, ‘You are traffic.’ You can't sit there and be like, ‘Oh man, the traffic was horrible.’ … You are... See more