Mistrusting Creativity: Currents in Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red
Why do some people mistrust creativity, while others feel it leads them to deeper faith? Is creativity inseparable from identity? Adam and Eveby Abu Said Ubaud Allah Ibn Bakhitshu To God belongs the...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Salman Rushdie
© izarbeltza with CCLicense For a long while I have believed – this is perhaps my version of Sir Darius Xerxes Cama’s belief in a fourth function of outsideness – that in every generation there are a...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Sheryl Lee
Le Vampire by Philip Burne-Jones I’ve always had a fascination with vampires. It’s not that I’m exactly fascinated with the dark side. It’s the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Roger Zelazny
Norman Rockwell, Girl at her Mirror© Bob Swain with CCLicense I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them. ― Roger...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Charles Taylor
© Todd W. Shaffer with CCLicense We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Adrienne Rich
© Elisa Dudnikova with CCLicense No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Zhuangzi
© Flemming Christiansen with CCLicense I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. –Zhuangzi
View ArticleQuote for Today: Haruki Marukami
© John Curley with CCLicense Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Vladimir Nabokov
Yayoi Kusama, Phalli’s Fieldimage © ®DS with CCLicense For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms...
View ArticleQuote for Today: David Levithan
John Vanderpoel, Pencil Drawing of Young Woman in Profile I thought about the word ‘profile’ and what a weird double meaning it had. We say we’re looking at a person’s profile online, or say a...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Annie Besant
© cheekycrows3 with CCLicense To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child. –Annie Besant
View ArticleDolls from Around the World, part one: Dancing Figures
Ethnic dolls have much to do with memory and the interpretation of the past. They codify values, dress, gender roles, and appropriate occupations for the culture they represent– or at least someone’s...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Derek Landy
All is VanityCharles Allan Gilbert, 1892 “The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Colin Firth
The inside of Darth Vader’s helmetBernie Thomas, PDI Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. ―Colin Firth
View ArticleQuote for Today: P.S. Baber
“There are four kinds of people in the world, Ms. Harper. Those who build walls. Those who protect walls. Those who breach walls. And those who tear down walls. Much of life is discovering who you...
View ArticleQuote for Today: A.M. Homes
Public Domain Image via Pixabay You are your own beginning. Every day, every hour, every minute, you start again. There is no point wishing you were someone else, you are who you are—start there. ―A.M....
View ArticleQuote for Today: Henry David Thoreau
© S-uperflu0us with CCLicense, image cropped and resized If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears,...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Frida Kahlo
The Two Fridas, Frida Kahlo, 1939 I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Haruki Murakami
© John Curley with CCLicense Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Barbara Hurd
Okefenokee SwampPublic Domain Image via Pixabay In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is...
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