Source: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 1: Predicament, Ch. 2: The Mandarin Dialect (p. 13)
“The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.”
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Variant: Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable.
Source: As quoted in LIFE magazine (22 April 1957), p. 152; also in Letters and Papers from Prison (1967), p. 47.
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Ce sera la noblesse de leur style qui, dans quarante ans, rendra illisibles nos écrivains de 1840.
Marginalia note, first edition of La Chartreuse de Parme (1840)
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