The worst approach to suffering is to try to make it go away, and the worst approach to happiness is to try to make it stay.
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Letters from Max: A Book of Friendship

Letters from Max: A Book of Friendship

Nov 10, 2018-- "In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Max Ritvo was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted poet in remission from pediatric cancer. Studded with poems and songs, their correspondence is a deeply moving portrait of a friendship, and a shimmering exploration of love, art, mortality, and joy." What follows is an excerpt from 'Letters from Max'. (4633 reads)


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