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Raymond Chandler on writing

You have, which is a rare thing, that ability and the responsibility to listen to the dissent in yourself, to at least give it the floor, because it is the key — not only to consciousness, but to real growth. To accept duality is to earn identity.

Joss Whedon on embracing our inner contradictions. (via explore-blog)

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Ernest Hemingway’s reading list for a young writer, including:
Madame Bovary (Flaubert)
Dubliners (Joyce)
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky)
The Enormous Room (E. E. Cummings)
Wuthering Heights (Brönte)

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Ernest Hemingway’s reading list for a young writer, including:

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Only the best thing ever: Advice to Little Girls – a playful and mischievous short story penned by young Mark Twain in 1865, encouraging girls to think independently rather than obey social mores, newly illustrated by beloved Russian children’s book artist Vladimir Radunsky.

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Only the best thing ever: Advice to Little Girls – a playful and mischievous short story penned by young Mark Twain in 1865, encouraging girls to think independently rather than obey social mores, newly illustrated by beloved Russian children’s book artist Vladimir Radunsky.

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Striking watercolors of malformed insects by scientific illustrator Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, a visceral political statement about the dangers of radioactivity and nuclear power gone out of hand.

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Striking watercolors of malformed insects by scientific illustrator Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, a visceral political statement about the dangers of radioactivity and nuclear power gone out of hand.

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