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If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done. ↗

— John Lubbock

#ask #done #doubt #ever #good

I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions? ↗

— Ernst Lubitsch

#help #i #imaginations #suggestions #their

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. ↗

— Arthur Symons

#before #faithfulness #him #mere #realist

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not. ↗

— John Lubbock

#duty #evidence #judgment #our #sufficient

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9. ↗

— Josh Lucas

#charleston #coast #funny #i #island

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. ↗

— Lucan

#given #hostages #i #sons #them

There stands the shadow of a glorious name. ↗

— Lucan

#name #shadow #stands

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it. ↗

— Josh Lucas

#drama #energy #hard #harder #much

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

#clarity #how #impress #mainly #people

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. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

#both #ears #english #few #matters