#th

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

— Lucan

#given #hostages #i #sons #them

Nothing is wasted. ↗

— Edward V. Lucas

#wasted

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

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages. ↗

— Edward V. Lucas

#country #languages #learn #own #people

You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. ↗

— Edward V. Lucas

#lose #loss #may #now #now and then

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

#directly #fails #far #grows #had

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams). ↗

— Gary Lucas

#classical #classical music #day #debussy #doubt

The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of. ↗

— Gary Lucas

#baby #beyond #birth #both #bring