"But even Plato knew that class and conditioning and so forth have an inalterable effect on the individual. It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate."
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Donna Tartt on Raising Creative Children
To parents who want to make artists of their children, I would say: leave them alone. These negative spaces are precisely where aesthetic sense is formed, where the bored little mind turns in on itself, and presto! Spaceships, talking daffodils, entertainment!