Cyril Connolly book Enemies of Promise
Source: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 1: Predicament, Ch. 3: The Challenge of the Mandarins (p. 19)
“The act of writing itself distracts the thoughts, and what is read twice is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed.”
No. 74 (September 15, 1759)
The Idler (1758–1760)
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