How to Be a Creative Historian

I really feel like people don't look back enough. I think that the great, the deepest artists I come into contact with are usually connected to the past in some really rich and strong way. The deeper your connection to the past is the more you pull that stuff into the present and the more strength it'll have to sort of be launched into the future. There's a new Martin Scorsese documentary about Fran Leibowitz on my brain because she says she's so cranky and I love it. She's always talking about how young people invented things and they don't know what they're doing but I'm trying to work out how to make myself wise for middle age.

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