Realistically, I really just don’t know who could possibly want to pick up this book. I just needed to understand why we are where
Quotes
Sonnly Rollins on honesty and Thelonious Monk
He was also the single most honest man I ever met in my life.” Asked what he meant by that, Sonny said, “Well….let me
Sonny Rollins on the need for practice
“If I don’t get to practice, work on my embouchure and scales, then I can’t play correctly, and if I can’t play correctly, I
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
…this idea of replacing God and the gods running future events with something even more religiously fundamentalist: the unconditional belief in the idea of
Male heroes byJoshua ferris
The male hero, once in ample supply, has entered a period of steady decline, and today our most iconic men are more likely to
artist Matthew Day Jackson on why writers need help
“What’s under assault right now?” he asks. “How a writer’s intellectual property is distributed, and how their work finds itself in the world, is
Antoine Arnault
according to his friend, the shoe designer Christian Louboutin. “Antoine is nicer than you would expect. He listens well. He is interested in people.
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Human and financial costs of 9.11
Almost 3,000 people died as a direct result of the 9.11 attacks, but far more died in the resulting US countermeasures; more than 6,600