Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Roosevelt relished the company of pretty, attentive women, and flirting with them was one of his favorite pastimes.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up
Hemingway had disliked Zelda since their first meeting in Paris, when he gazed into her “hawk’s eyes” and saw a rapacious spirit. He estimated that 90 percent of Scott’s problems were her fault,
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
MANY YEARS AGO I REALIZED THAT A BOOK, a novel, is a dream that asks itself to be written in the same way we fall in love with someone: the dream becomes impossible to resist, there’s nothing you can do about it, you finally give in and succumb even if your instincts tell you to run the other way because this could be, in the end, a dangerous
... See moreBret Easton Ellis • The Shards: A novel
