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A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.
— Mary Lascelles
We live with the decisions we make, Bill. That's what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes.
— M.L. Stedman
It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
Jane Austen never repeats herself.
— Mary Lascelles
Few novelists can be more scrupulous than Jane Austen as to the phrasing of the thoughts of their characters.
— Mary Lascelles
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self.
— Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
— Vince Lombardi
Others beside Jane Austen have made their Eltons, though none quite so cooly as she.
— Mary Lascelles
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
— C.S. Lewis
Disappointed, yes. Annoyed, yes. But I'm not really mad.
— Colleen Hoover
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
Landscapes we must owe something to the eye of the beholder.
— Mary Lascelles
How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
Hope is believe in the word of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women.
— Mary Lascelles
A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.
— Mary Lascelles
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.
— Bill De Blasio
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
— Lascelles Abercrombie