August 2012
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Watchaustinkleon:
Elizabeth Gilbert on having a genius vs. being a genius
After we had a Twitter back-and-forth about artists choking on their success, my friend Sunni Brown reminded me of this TED talk by Elizabeth Gilbert, which she gave after her book Eat, Pray, Love was a huge success. In it, she talks about all the ridiculous stuff we expect of artists, and how people kept asking her if she...
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"there's something really beautiful about people...
ronakeller:
- Carissa Gallo
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“I have travelled half the world and I have seen that all art is political and...”
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“I sell an app for money, then I spend less than I make.”
– Marco Arment, when asked about Instapaper’s business model
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AUSTIN KLEON: William Maxwell's collage of... →
austinkleon:
Lewis Menand has written about writing and collage: The visual artist can deal with almost every kind of material, even sound, but the writer deals with only one kind of material: sentences. The solution, therefore, [is] to treat sentences as though they were found objects.
This was…
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The fear of human opinion disables; trusting in God protects you from that.
(Proverbs 29:25 MSG)
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
– Oscar Wilde 