It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs … - F. L. Lucas

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To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.

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

Consumption, Liar, Liars, Memories, Notes, Reading

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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.

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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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Most style is not honest enough.

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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

Grace, History, Long, Munich

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.

Ears, Principles, Rhythm, Simple, Sound, Trust