"I read in Harper's Magazine a few years ago an article by a highly educated man wherein he told with what conscientious pains he had brought up all his children to be skeptical of everything, never to believe anything in life or religion or their own feelings without submitting it to many rational doubts, to have a persistent, thoroughly skeptical, doubting attitude toward everything. In other words to weazen and kill in themselves all spontaneous love, passion, enthusiasm, all creative power. I think he might as well have taken them out in the backyard and killed them with an ax."
Source: "If You Want to Write" by Brenda Ueland.
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I have her book. (bought it at the flea years ago). I love Brenda Ueland. Now hers is a portrait that would look good in a blog...
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