
What did we want with an Empire! It —
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Gentlemen don't earn money. Gentlemen, as a matter of fact, don't do anything. They —
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It was as if a man should have jumped out of a frying pan into - a duckpond. —
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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 that you can smell his breath. —
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If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed. ... —
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I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often. —
Ned Beauman

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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It is a queer world and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want? —
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Few Germans were imaginative enough to be irresponsible, but —
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Then, happy was the man who carried his liquor well. —
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Nulla dies felix - call no day fortunate till it be ended. —
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Being correspondent of a Left paper with a name like Eisenstein deprived one of one's chance of usefulness. Besides —
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Edith Ethel with the sweetest possible smile would beg the pillows off a whole hospital ward full of dying ... . She —
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It was business, and business may be presumed to cover quite a lot of bad taste. —
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[W]e are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other. —
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New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious. —
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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 had known the shallows. —
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But charity begins surely with the char! —
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For love is like a journey in mountainous country, up through the clouds, and down into the shadows to an unknown destination. —
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I thought suddenly that she wasn't real; she was just a mass of talk out of guidebooks, of drawings out of fashion-plates. —
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Sylvia knew he was only now formulating his settled opinion so as not to have his active brain to give to the discussion. —
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For Mrs. Satterthwaite interested herself - it was the only interest she had - in handsome, thin, and horribly disreputable young men. —
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It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture. —
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If you live among dogs they'll think you've the motives of a dog. —
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My dear, it couldn't have lasted for ever ... But you're a good man. And very clever ... . You will get through ... . —
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Words passed, but words could no more prove an established innocence than words can enhance a love that exists. —
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His sister-in-law Sylvia represented for him unceasing, unsleeping activities of a fantastic kind. —
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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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I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him. —
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These trenches are like Pompeii, sir. —
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Our Minister for Water-closets won't keep two and a half million men in any base in order to get the votes of their women —
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She had Authority conferred on her. Metempsychosistically. —
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This is the saddest story I have ever heard. —
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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 to tell a good lie in answer to a charge. —
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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 story! —
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Isn't there any heaven where old beautiful dances, old beautiful intimacies prolong themselves? —
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Otherwise the world could not continue - the children would not be healthy. And —
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Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst. —
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Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception. —
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What distinguished man from the brutes was his freedom. When, —
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Edward ought, I suppose, to have gone to the Transvaal. It would have done him a great deal of good to get killed. —
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Inspector had been in the library, and might possibly have —
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Ruggles disliked Christopher Tietjens with the inveterate dislike of the man who revels in gossip for the man who never gossips. —
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So you cannot teach me a great deal about the shady in life. I was in the family of a Middlesex County Councillor. In —
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There are times when to a poor priest the rule of the Church as regards marriage seems bitter hard —
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By Jove ... ' he said to himself: 'It's true! What a jolly little mistress she'd make! —
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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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God is probably - and very rightly - on the side of the stuffy domesticities. Otherwise —
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That in effect was love. It struck him as astonishing. The word was so little in his vocabulary ... —
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The rocks would be there a million years after the light went for the last time out. —
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The signal for the train's departure was a very bright red; that is about as passionate a statement as I can get into that scene. —
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When, then, a man was deprived of freedom he became like a brute. To —
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The world is full of places to which I want to return —
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But of course he hates you for being in the army. All the men who aren't hate all the men that are. —
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But responsibility hardens the heart. It must. —
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Was this then Lent, pressing hard on the heels of Saturnalia? Not —
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He was grotesque, really. But joy radiated from his homespuns when you walked beside him. It welled out; it enveloped you. —
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The gods to each ascribe a differing lot: Some enter at the portal. Some do not! —
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But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, she would drop in that accusation. —
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But decent augurs grin behind their masks. They never preach to each other. —
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That monstrosity you honour with your name - which is also mine, thank you! —
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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 the fact he is reading a book. —
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And Sylvia Tietjens wavered into the room. —
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I don't know what anyone has to be proud of. —
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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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(You cannot control your imagination's pictures. Of —
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