Ford Madox Ford

“The rocks would be there a million years after the light went for the last time out.”

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“The novel is a medium of profoundly serious investigation into the human case.”

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Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

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“That monstrosity you honour with your name - which is also mine, thank you!”

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“being a miner he sat on his heels more comfortably than on a chair”

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“This is the saddest story I have ever heard.”

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“He was presumably a lover. They did things like commanding battalions. And worse!”

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If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed.…

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And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.

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“As Tietjens saw the world, you didn't "talk." Perhaps you didn't even think about how you felt.”

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If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough…

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“His sister-in-law Sylvia represented for him unceasing, unsleeping activities of a fantastic kind.”

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“Sylvia was a lady and would not allow herself really to care for the person in the world for whom it would…

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“Although Tietjens hated golf as he hated any occupation that was of a competitive nature, he could engross himself in the mathematics…

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“She said that she did not wish for any monuments to the Hurlbird family. At the time I thought that that was…

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“He carried that obsession with him always. And in the end, by its very wrongness, it saved his life.”

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“It was probably indecent to think of a corpse as impotent. But he was, very likely. That would be why his wife…

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In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason,…

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“All feminine claws, he said to himself, are sheathed in velvet; but they can hurt a good deal if they touch you…

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“The handful of Germans who had reached the trench had been sacrificed for the stupid sort of fun called. Strategy, probably. Stupid!…

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You may well ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings…

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No author, I think, is deserving of much censure for vanity if, taking down one of his ten-year-old books, he exclaims: "Great…

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“At the same time, Mrs de Bray Pape was saying things to the discredit of Marie Antoinette, whom apparently she disliked. He…

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“- A! Tę wojnę będzie warto zobaczyć... Żadnego pijanego rzucania się do gardeł bandytów-imbecyli... - Moja matka by zwariowała! - powiedziała Sylwia.…

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“Father Consett sighed. 'I told you this was an evil place,' he said. 'In the deep forests. She'd not have such evil…

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“I know!’ Father Consett said. ‘You’re a beautiful woman. Some men would say it was a lucky fellow that lived with you.…

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What then is to be the lot of Rossetti's fame and influence? 'An amateur who failed in two arts', it is true;…

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“A gentleman in those days consulted his heirs about tree planting. Should you plant a group of copper beeches against a group…

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“The man’s face, wrinkled, dark and apelike, looked up. ‘He was a good pal, pore old b— ,’ he said. ‘You would…

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“You will then. Listen here...I've always got this to look forward to: I'll settle down by that man's side. I'll be as…

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“That was what a young woman was for. You seduced a young woman in order to be able to finish your talks…

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“But, in these later days, much greater convulsions had overwhelmed her. It sufficed for Tietjens to approach her to make her feel…

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“The room where they were dancing was very dark… It was queer to be in his arms… She had known better dancers……

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“I like the slow, smooth roll of the great big trains—and they are the best trains in the world! I like being…

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“Upon my soul!' Tietjens said to himself, 'that girl down there is the only intelligent living soul I've met for years.' A…

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“Every word that he had spoken amongst the amassed beauties of Macmaster furnishings had been a link in a love-speech. It was…

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“This was a war of attrition...A mug's game! A mug's game as far as killing men was concerned, but not an uninteresting…

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Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.

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The world is full of places to which I want to return

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[W]e are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other.

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