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Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
The intellectuals’ chief cause of anguish are one another’s works (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
I’ll read, and then I’ll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don’t fight it (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
Take a portion of wit, and fashion it fit, like a needle, with point and with eye: a point that can wound, an eye to look round, and at folly or vice let it fly (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of them. Avoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it. (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one’s share in the world’s work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done. (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers. (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams. (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art. (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world. (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
On reflection, moral judgment in the arts appears rather as a tribute to their power to influence emotion and possibly conduct. And reflecting further on what some critics do today, one sees that a good many have merely shifted the ground of their moralism, transferring their impulse of righteousness to politics and social issues (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
Life is given us as a passion (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published (Jacques Barzun Quotes)
The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity (Jacques Barzun Quotes)