Rob Tourtelot
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Rob Tourtelot
Sometimes we are not really lost; we already have what we need, but we havenât noticed. Eventually a tenderness opens in us and we start to change. It doesnât matter if it happens after long years of struggle or if it happens quickly. We just have to be grateful when it comes.
John Tarrant ⢠John Tarrant : Articles
Your job, really, is to find people who love you for reasons you hardly understand, and to love them back, and to try as hard as you can to make it all easier for each other."
On the Sublime:
In the presence of the sublime, we are made to feel desperately small. In most of life, a sense of our smallness is experienced as a humiliation (when it happens, for example, at the hands of a professional enemy or a concierge). But the impression of smallness that unfolds in the presence of the Sublime has an oddly uplifting and
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At sixteen, Mike Nicholsâs girlfriendâs parents gave him tickets to a Broadway play that turned out to redirect the course of his life. In college, a chance interaction with a cafeteria busboy led to him attending weekly improv workshops, where he soaked up practices and principles of creativity and
a good story, by definition, has to be smarter than the person who wrote it. Because if itâs less smart, that means the writer wasnât writing a story but assembling a piece of Ikea furniture. Most of the masterpieces Iâve encountered were smarter than their creators, and often more decent and purely good than them, too.
Etgar Keret ⢠So you think you can tell?
In 1817, the poet John Keats wrote a letter to his brothers to share this exciting realization. âAt once it struck me,â Keats wrote, âwhat quality went to form a Man of Achievement ⌠Negative Capability.â Keats explains that âNegative Capabilityâ is âwhen a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching... See more