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 Martin Barzun
In producers, loafing is productive and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation. -- Jacques Martin Barzun
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 Martin Barzun
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