Exciting writer with captivating quotes:
https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/07/17/doris-lessing-golden-notebook-reading/

Thank you, another great article. (just helped me how to handle a huge book I think I might not be into)

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Doris Lessing on How to Read a Book and How to Read the World

Born in Iran and raised in Zimbabwe, Doris Lessing (October 22, 1919–November 17, 2013) was fourteen when she dropped out of school and eighty-eight when she won the Nobel Prize for smelting …

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Simone Weil on Attention and Grace

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

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"It is easy to picture the #young of our own time...perched on their standing desks across the glassy campuses of Google and Facebook, drinking #corporate kombucha on tap while composing impassioned tweets against #PoliceBrutality, #homophobia, and #ClimateChange...a budding person in a world that feels too immense and immovable."

"MLK’s Lost Lectures on #Technology, #Alienation, #Activism, and the Three Ways of Resisting the System" – #TheMarginalian
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MLK’s Lost Lectures on Technology, Alienation, Activism, and the Three Ways of Resisting the System

“There has always been a force struggling to respect higher values. None of the current evils rose without resistance, nor have they persisted without opposition.”

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What Is Time: 200 Years of Ravishing Reflections, from Borges to Nina Simone

“The moment is not properly an atom of time but an atom of eternity.”

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The Universe as an Infinite Storm of Beauty: John Muir on the Transcendent Interconnectedness of Nature

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

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> "A certain power of enduring boredom is therefore essential to a happy life, and is one of the things that ought to be taught to the young" ... the great childhood joy and developmental achievement of learning to “do nothing with nobody all alone by yourself,” a testament to #Kierkegaard’s insistence that “the more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.” ..
#BertrandRussel quoted with others by #TheMarginalian's #MariaPopova