“A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.”| The Marginalian
“When you work regularly, inspiration strikes regularly.”| The Marginalian
On the art-science of “allowing the various petals of our identity to fully unfold.”| The Marginalian
Hemingway wrote standing, Nabokov on index cards, Twain while puffing cigars, and Sitwell in an open coffin.| The Marginalian
“This is the greatest damn thing about the universe. That we can know so much, recognize so much, dissect, do everything, and we can’t grasp it.”| The Marginalian
“The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.”| The Marginalian
“Worship your intellect, being seen as smart — you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out.”| The Marginalian
“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”| The Marginalian
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”| The Marginalian
Hemingway, Didion, Baldwin, Fitzgerald, Sontag, Vonnegut, Bradbury, Morrison, Orwell, Le Guin, Woolf, and other titans of literature.| The Marginalian