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It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.

— Stanley Fish How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011)

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"The idea — the core idea of humanism — is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them,.."

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Before the words slide into their slots, they are just discrete items, pointing everywhere and nowhere.

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They are their own monuments, as is this quietly thrilling sentence.

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