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    “[René] Descartes believed that idleness was essential to good mental work, and he made sure not to overexert himself.

    Mason Currey, Daily Rituals (Page 151)

    Daily Rituals [Book]

      Daily Rituals by Mason Currey

      By: Mason Currey

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      Book Overview:  How is a novel written? A masterpiece painted? A symphony composed? Benjamin Franklin took daily naked air baths and Toulouse-Lautrec pained in brothels. Edith Sitwell worked in bed, and George Gershwin composed at the piano in pyjamas. Freud worked sixteen hours a day, but Gertrude Stein could never write for more than thirty minutes, and F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in gin-fuelled bursts—he believed alcohol was essential to his creative process. Here are the working routines of more than a hundred and sixty of the greatest philosophers, writers, composers and artists ever to have lived, who, whether by amphetamines or alcohol, headstands or boxing, made time and got to work.

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