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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 The Greatest Problem, and Other Essays (1960)

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Tiresome as intellectuals can be, even they are probably much less menacing and pernicious to the world than anti-intellectuals.

The Search for Good Sense (1958)

Among the maggots that breed in the corruption of poetry one of the commonest is the bookworm.

And how is clarity to be acquired? Mainly by taking trouble; and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

Style (1955)

Most of us know accurately only what we constantly relearn; memory is a dipsomaniac, needing to be perpetually refreshed.

Style (1955)

Self-determination must stop somewhere. In politics, as in physics, you come to a point where you cannot go on splitting things.

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