Former White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers was a University of Texas at Austin student who wrote for the The Daily Texan there and went on to write fantastic books and host great programming, including the …
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Bill Moyers on creativity
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John Kennedy Toole on when life gets you down
A Confederacy for Dunces by John Kennedy Toole is the kind of classic that every outcast or weirdo has read and identified with; Ignatius, the lead character, sells hot dogs in the French Quarter and is disgusted …
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Charles Bukowski Quote about life
In high school I read the poetry of Charles Bukowski in Love is a Dog From Hell over and over, absorbing how modern it all was, and how he spoke a very frank truth in direct prose. …
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Billie Joe Armstrong quote on being a loser
In honor of me seeing Green Day tomorrow, I thought I’d share this quote from singer/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong about being a loser. People worry too much about winning, how about just happily surviving and helping …
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Arthur Miller Quote
As a kid obsessed with Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller first got my attention as her serious looking NYC playwright husband. Later in school he came up again when we read The Crucible, where I learned that …
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Jack Kerouac Quote
I could probably write an entire blog with Jack Kerouac quotes alone. He taught me about freedom, Buddhism, Dylan Thomas but most of all showed me that I wasn’t the first human to have mental torment …
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Sophocles Quote
When people ask what I do instead of drinking these days, I often tell them that I learn. After messing with my brain cells so much, it’s time to be gentle and feed the brain …
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Anna Deavere Smith Quote
When reading Anna Deavere Smith‘s play Twilight about the 1992 Los Angeles riots, you see monologue after monologue of various people’s witnessed monstrosities and worries while underneath there is something glowing steady- hope. With every struggle, …
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John Steinbeck Quote
When I was first starting on my self discovery journey, a very important thing was pointed out to me – I was focused on perfection, and it was holding me back. I’ve always thought of …
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Emile Zola Quote
I was once driving through Denver when I saw a bearded poet type in his front yard with tons of books on the ground. Skerrrrrr! Hipster Garage Sale, got to stop. Picked up some Greek …
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