Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Henry James speaks of his deliberate consignment of an idea to the realm of the unconscious where it can be worked upon and realized: "I was charmed with my idea, which would take, however, much working out; and because it had so much to give, I think, must I have dropped it for the time into the deep well of unconscious cerebra-tion: not without t... See more
Richard E. Nisbett • Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Processes
Ernest already had plans for the royalties from the book. He was going to establish a trust fund for his family with the earnings from the first 70,000 copies; everything beyond that was going toward the purchase of a boat.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
dissolute,”
Andre Aciman • Call Me By Your Name
‘Did you take it?’ said James, looking at the children one after the other. Abruptly he seemed remote and stern, and desirable because of this; so Thomas turned away in shame.
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
“Balzac, Dante, Joseph Conrad, Dickens,”
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood
He had a great amount of intellectual capacity, of that peculiar kind which raises a man from throne to throne and lets him die loaded with honours without having either amused or enlightened the mind of a single man.