Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.
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If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
Jacques BarzunSimple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.
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Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap
Jacques BarzunThe French call mot juste the word that exactly fits. Why is this word so hard to find? The reasons are many. First, we don't always know what we mean and are too lazy too find out.
Jacques BarzunThe root difficulty in all cases was the state of being blind and deaf to words-- not seeing the words for the prose. Being adults, they had forgotten what every child understands, which is giving and taking a meaning is not automatic and inevitable
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The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.
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We are thus led to ask what the writer looks for and how he trains himself to look for it. The answer is: he makes himself habitually aware of words, positively self conscience of them about them, careful to follow what they might say and not to jump to what they might mean.
Jacques BarzunWe hear them continually on TV: hence they occur first when it is our turn to talk. In this regard, talk may be said to be the enemy of writing. If you observe yourself when on the point of writing that the word rising spontaneously to your mind is not the hard, clear words of a lover of plain speech, but this mush of counterfeits and cliches.
Jacques BarzunFirst Principle: Have a point and make it by means of the best word.
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