Jacques Barzun

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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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 Barzun

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The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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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

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The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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