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“ Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes. ”

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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

~ Jacques Barzun

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Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice.

~ Jacques Barzun

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Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

~ Jacques Barzun

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What we ask of a writer in the first place is a unique voice. We ask for the rest later, and we may even pretend that it is only the later things we required -- no personal, individual, induplicable quality, just pure art.

~ Jacques Barzun

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