Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Nicole Tremaglio
@nicoletremaglio
Joan Didion noted, “I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking.”
David C. Baker • The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
Haley Nahman • #176: Accounting for taste
am totally, 100% committed to doubting my own value and worth.
Carolyn Elliott • Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power (A method for getting what you want by getting off on what you don't)
All of these prolific geniuses in devotional service to their craft were monsters . Writer Claire Dederer: “[t]he female writers I know yearn to be more monstrous. They say it in off-hand, ha-ha-ha ways: ‘I wish I had a wife.’ What does that mean, really? It means you wish to abandon the tasks of nurturing in order to perform the selfis
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“The only beauty’s ugly, man
The crackin’, shakin’, breakin’ sounds’re
The only beauty I understand.”
Nat Hentoff • What Bob Dylan Wanted at Twenty-three
Shope Delano
@shopedelano
How much space for remembering is there in a day? How much should there be? I think about this in my poetry. I don’t want to be a nostalgist. Yet I feed on memory, need it to make poems, the art that is made of the stuff I have: my life and the world around me.
Elizabeth Alexander • The Light of the World: A Memoir
I can feel the tug of my deep and recurring suspicion that anything I might think about myself must be, somehow, necessarily wrong.