By: The Elephant's Child

The Elephant's Child — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:43:55 +0000

Not only that, Jim, he speaks in aphorisms, and has been doing so for years! I have my own homemade book of quotations. Bartletts gets the old familiar ones, but Dr. Sowell speaks in memorable phrases, and I copy them down and put them in my own quotation book titled “Insight.”

I recommend the process. I find I get great pleasure out of going back and re-reading my selections. Lots of Thomas Sowell, lots of Victor Davis Hanson, Jean Francois Revel, Robert Conquest, Irving Kristol, and lots of Richard Mitchell with a sprinkling of Walter Wriston. Has Bartletts beat all hollow, because it’s based on lines I run across — and think “Oh, I like how they said that.” I’m closing in on my first 100 pages.

By: Jim Yardley

Jim Yardley — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:04:53 +0000

I read Professor Sowell’s column yesterday, and I have to be honest, it knocked me over. I read Sunstein’s column (which became the source for Professor Sowell’s essay) a few days ago and had a nearly identical reaction to Sowell’s. I wrote my own article for Canada Free Press which was published two days before Professor Sowell’s and said substantially the same things. If you’re a writer that’s akin to having Ernest Hemmingway tell you that your stuff is pretty decent.

For anyone who hasn’t read Thomas Sowell, you are missing something extremely important. The man has a gift for explaining complex subjects in an easily understandable way.

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