Maria Popova
@brainpicker
Interestingness hunter-gatherer obsessed with combinatorial creativit1
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Beautiful: Willa Cather’s only surviving letter to her partner, Edith Lewis http://t.co/TErPrVI8cO
"Looks like the result of a pile of indecisive internal mtgs where an enormous committee ran rampant" Verizon's logo http://t.co/6SderaZHAT
"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has go to get down to work." http://t.co/NbnWWoXGWC
Edna St. Vincent Millay on the love of magic – short, breathtakingly beautiful letter from 1920 http://t.co/1kORyLRgAg
Arianna Huffington on redefining success not by of money and power but by the 3 W’s — well-being, wonder, and wisdom http://t.co/uNSX7uq7p0
THIS. “A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.” http://t.co/wwzH8kjPNn
"Every separation is a link." Literary Jukebox: Simone Weil + Fever Ray http://t.co/qdqkZogMMF #LitJuke
Copyright wrong of the day: http://t.co/D8vLbXqwwJ (At David Foster Wallace's expense, no less.) #facepalm
"Mad people=people who stand alone+burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same."Sontag http://t.co/zPilOncD3A
“Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool … eventually you’re going to topple over.” http://t.co/KRmHAcnRUn
To-Do – Gertrude Stein's posthumous "book of alphabet and birthdays," wonderfully illustrated http://t.co/0F1K2xOmV1
"Without music I should wish to die." Beautiful http://t.co/baSbSNw9l9
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle http://t.co/H5dRy1jia0
Nabokov’s curious writing rituals http://t.co/397qUHxa0Z
"I reject the label atheist because defining me [by what] I don’t believe would require an infinite list of nouns." http://t.co/eWp4fNuPRm
Arianna Huffington on redefining success – her fantastic 2013 Smith College commencement address http://t.co/B1tqxcfhul
The Pace of Productivity – how to master your creative routine http://t.co/7gF8pMoSTm
“Even poetry, Sweet Patron Muse forgive me the words, is not what music is.” Edna St. Vincent Millay on music's magic http://t.co/UODAZis2Su
"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold." Zelda Fitzgerald http://t.co/TQcgBGOsJW #LitJuke
"Real thinking always occurs on the subconscious level." Ray Bradbury on storytelling and the creative process http://t.co/rpecYdF4iy
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