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Writing Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

15 Writing quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

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If you’re after a fresh angle on the craft, Galbraith’s fifteen reflections offer a blend of analytical wit and practical advice. His background in economics gives his musings a distinctive edge, making each line a useful prompt for anyone shaping ideas on paper.

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Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before

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Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

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I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but…

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One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably…

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Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this…

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Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more…

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“One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious…

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There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly…

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We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a…

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“None of this excuses anyone from mastering the basic ideas and terminology of economics. The intelligent layman must expect also to encounter…

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Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at…

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I've been writing a book called The Economics of Innocent Fraud. I published part of it already in The Progressive ("Free Market…

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All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand; they are on intimate terms with poetry and…

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I write with two things in mind. I want to be right with my fellow economists. After all, I've made my life…

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“That economics has a considerable conceptual apparatus with an appropriate terminology can not be a serious ground for complaint. Economic phenomena, ideas,…

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Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

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Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

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“Men can labor to make sense out of single steps toward the goal without ever pausing to reflect that the goal itself is ludicrous.”

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Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to…

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That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification…

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Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.

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If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

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Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

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World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending…

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Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see…

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While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.

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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in…

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