You need not teach an acorn to grow into an oak tree
“You need not, and in fact cannot, teach an acorn to grow into an oak tree, but when given a chance, its intrinsic potentialities will […]
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They Thought They Were Free
“One doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only […]
My attempts to adapt myself to the standardized world remain fruitless
It may well be that my thinking of today is somewhat different from that of twenty years ago, but my feelings and my being, my […]
Quotes from A Life of One’s Own by Marion Milner
Some quotes I’ve collected from a book I’m reading, A Life of One’s Own, by Marion Milner. Certainly I had never suspected that the key […]
We’ll need writers who can remember freedom
This, I believe: Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can […]
Raw material for the artist
“A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have […]