"He wouldn't write a letter because he couldn't……" — Ford Madox Ford
"He wouldn't write a letter because he couldn't without beginning it 'Dear Sylvia' and ending it 'Yours sincerely' or 'truly' or 'affectionately.' He's that sort of precise imbecile. I tell you he's so formal he can't do without all the conventions there are and so truthful he can't use half of them."
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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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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know…
— Wendell Berry
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Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless…
— Julie Burchill
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While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.
— Ambrose Bierce
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If a woman plans to terminate her pregnancy, she commonly refers to the life within her as the 'fetus'. But…
— James Dobson
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This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being - der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately…
— Abdus Salam
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When you're dead, you're dead. No one is going to remember me when I'm dead. Oh maybe a few friends…
— Susan Hayward
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Let us affectionately love His angels as counselors and defenders appointed by the Father and placed over us. They are…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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A person influenced by circumstances can become viciously envious or affectionately kind. Our company and our surroundings have a crucial…
— Radhanath Swami
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Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have…
— Mark Twain
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
— Walt Whitman
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Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want."…
— E. M. Forster
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But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples,…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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