Ford Madox Ford

But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.

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Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.

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“And Tietjens, who hated no man, in face of this simple-minded and agreeable schoolboy type of fellow, fell to wondering why it…

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We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own…

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

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“Old Campion had once said he believed - he positively believed, with shudders - that Christopher desired to live in the spirit…

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“In all matrimonial associations there is, I believe, one constant factor - a desire to deceive the person with whom one lives…

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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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“Christ was a sort of an Englishman, and Englishmen did not, as a rule, refuse to do their jobs .”

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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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He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had…

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“She at least was broad-minded, and moreover she understood the workings of the human heart. It was creditable for a man to…

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What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of yourself. As…

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He thought he suddenly understood. For the Lincon-shire sergeant-major the word Peace meant that a man could stand up on a hill.…

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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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The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look…

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

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“[W]e are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other.” ― Ford Madox Ford, Critical Essays of Ford Madox…

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“If he had uttered the word “come” she would have followed him to the bitter ends of the earth; if he had…

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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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“Well, then, he ought to write her a letter. He ought to say: 'This is to tell you that I propose to…

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“Is the whole thing a folly and a mockery? Am I no better than a eunuch or is the proper man—the man…

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“He was in a beastly hole. But decency demanded that he shouldn't act in panic. He had a mechanical, normal panic that…

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The instances of honesty that one comes across in this world are just as amazing as the instances of dishonesty. After forty-five…

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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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