"The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word."

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Source : F. L. Lucas (2012). “Style: The Art of Writing Well”, p.17, Harriman House Limited

F. L. Lucas

#Mind Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Facts Quotes

“True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge”
“When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.”

Source : Larry Niven, Gregory Bentham, Gregory Benford (2015). “Shipstar”, p.60, Titan Books
“Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.”
“What is the point of a car alarm if it doesn't get people out of their beds to come help you? So if I ever have a car alarm - if I ever have a car - it's just going to be a big speaker on the back of my car. And when anybody tries to break in, it's just gonna go: Attention! Free bags of weed! Come get your free bags of weed!”
“Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.”
“I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.”
“Bring on those tired, labor-plagued, competition-weary companies and ESOP will breathe new life into them. They will find ESOP better than Geritol. It will revitalize what is wrong with capitalism. It will increase productivity. It will improve labor relations. It will promote economic justice. It will save the economic system. It will make our form of government and our concept of freedom prevail over those who don't agree with us.”
“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.”

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