I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.
—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.
—F. L. Lucas
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