Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this as a consolation in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things that people do.
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On Nonconformity and Virtue
Recent articles of note from the world wide web.
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Eliot on Tradition
If the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind or timid adherence to its successes, “tradition” should positively be discouraged … Tradition is a matter of much wider significance. It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour. It involves, in the first place, the historical sense … and the historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence ...This historical sense, which is a sense of the timeless as well as of the temporal and of the timeless and of…
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On Patriotism, Celebrity Chefs, and AI Icons
Recent articles of note from the world wide web.
