F. L. Lucas Quotes

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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 memory, in most of us, is a liar with galloping consumption.

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.

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, its effects are largely ill or null.

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The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

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 to rules as to their ears.

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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.

F. L. Lucas

The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed.

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.

F. L. Lucas

F. L. Lucas

F. L. Lucas

Born: December 28, 1894

Died: June 1, 1967 (aged 72)

Bio: Frank Laurence Lucas was an English classical scholar, literary critic, poet, novelist, playwright, political polemicist, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and intelligence officer at Bletchley Park during World War II.

Known for:

Style (1955)
The decline and fall of the romantic ideal (1936)
Seneca and Elizabethan tragedy (1922)
Euripides and his influence (1923)
Marionettes (1930)

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