Upstream: Selected Essays
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Read between July 20 - July 30, 2025
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Attention is the beginning of devotion.
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You must not ever stop being whimsical. _______ And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.
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In creative work—creative work of all kinds—those who are the world’s working artists are not trying to help the world go around, but forward.
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to observe with passion, to think with patience, to live always caringly.
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The best use of literature bends not toward the narrow and the absolute but to the extravagant and the possible.