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Ford Madox Ford has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your…
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The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of…
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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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If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed.…
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It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is dreadful is…
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Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able…
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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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I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end…
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Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I…
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Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
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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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If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry.…
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It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is…
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For to know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you…
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He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious,…
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Incidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many…
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