The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history. - F. L. Lucas
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
- F. L. Lucas
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails. - F. L. Lucas
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them. - F. L. Lucas
And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.
Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it. - F. L. Lucas
Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.
This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion… - F. L. Lucas
This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion…
Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much … - F. L. Lucas
Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much …
It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs of one's travels. For memor… - F. L. Lucas
It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs of one's travels. For memor…
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continue… - F. L. Lucas
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continue…
A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all. - F. L. Lucas
A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
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