"He thought he suddenly understood. For the Lincon-shire……" — Ford Madox Ford
"He thought he suddenly understood. For the Lincon-shire sergeant-major the word Peace meant that a man could stand up on a hill. For him it meant someone to talk to."
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35 Quotes by Ford Madox Ford
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The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and…
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The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists -…
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In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands…
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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…
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Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to…
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What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of…
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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…
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Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English…
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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…
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If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court…
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Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk.
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in…
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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number…
— Daniel Boone
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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
— Rupert Brooke
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Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting…
— Julie Burchill
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A senator will come off Capitol Hill and they'll be barred from two years from lobbying in the Senate. So…
— Jack Abramoff
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The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.
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I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings…
— Joseph Dalton Hooker
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I love running cross-country...You come up a hill and see two deer going, 'What the hell is he doing?' On…
— Robin Williams
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I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my…
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