Andrew Blackman
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A clear-sighted, well-argued plea for individuality of thought in an age of mass emotions and social conditioning.
Doris Lessing has faith in the power of writers to stay detached from these mass emotions and “enable us to see ourselves as others see us.” I like the image she gives of writers as a collective organism, [...]
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