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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 44e5a2d | the face of Christ in your van der Goes, no one could call that a lie. | William Gaddis | ||
| 1d01f9e | and she turned for the stairs as the sound of rain came, finally, scattered across the roof, a fall that now gave substance to the stilled beams of headlamps in the drive where those of flashlights rose and fell to the cadenced steps come back and round the range of yew and up the terrace and through the door to fall on broken glass and flee across the inkstained carpet, darting, climbing, caught fixed in niches, they scaled the walls and l.. | William Gaddis | ||
| 1d03e86 | The most difficult challenge to the ideal is its transformation into reality, and few ideals survive. | William Gaddis | ||
| 96ded35 | Money? in a voice that rustled. | money | William Gaddis | |
| e755081 | Directly he was alone, he was assailed by her simulacra, in all states of acute sorrow, or smiling, of complete abstraction or painful animation, of dress and undress, as he had seen her these last few days: directly he was alone, the images came to mock everything he had seen. Her sadness became shrieking grief, and her animation riotous, immodest in dress and licentious in nakedness, many-limbed as some wild avatar of the Hindu cosmology .. | William Gaddis | ||
| 989a437 | That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes. | William Gaddis | ||
| 413ac55 | Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair. | women | William Gaddis | |
| 5ef2460 | Even in sleep, he was waiting, a little tense like everyone waiting within reach of a telephone, for it to ring. And still, even in sleep, he knew there would be time. Adam, after all, lived for nine hundred thirty years. | William Gaddis | ||
| 332f71c | Thus called upon, he took courage: the sursum corda of an extravagant belch straightened him upright, and he answered, -- Whfffck? Whether this was an approach to discussion he had devised himself, or a subtle adaptation of the Socratic method of questioning perfected in the local athenaeums which he attended until closing time, was not to be known; for the answer was, -- Stand aside. -- Here, don't goway. Here, how do youfffk. . He licked .. | William Gaddis | ||
| bc7e1af | You see I still have confidence in you sir, or should I say the artist who dwells within you, the artist who disdains such mundane details as selecting a fresh shirt in the morning, who steps forth into the workday world the rest of us inhabit indifferent to the glances he draws because his shoes fail to match, why? Because his mind has been elsewhere, his inner ear tuned to the sonorous tones of horn and kettledrum, tones it is his sacred .. | William Gaddis | ||
| 7a4aaf1 | But what I remember is the countryside then, the brilliance of outdoors and outwindows, and the sunlight streaming through the lozenge shapes of the glass, and we were locked away from it, locked inside to worship. And there was the sun out there for everyone else to see. Good God, tell me Clovis wasn't lonely at dawn. Tell me he wasn't sick at the sunset. | William Gaddis | ||
| dc1fd3c | None of us grew but the business. | William Gaddis | ||
| 24ed049 | said, --Monasteries are a good thing for America, they help keep the homosexuals off the streets. | William Gaddis | ||
| 27b760f | A man's damnation is his own damned business. | William Gaddis | ||
| bad5b3d | fragments of a conversation she had left a little earlier (on Rilke, not Rilke's poetry but Rilke the man, who refused to be psychoanalyzed for fear of purging his genius); | William Gaddis | ||
| fbecc0c | Edward ought, I suppose, to have gone to the Transvaal. It would have done him a great deal of good to get killed. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| a99b3af | The man looked down at his feet. Tietjens said to himself that it was Valentine Wannop doing this to him. He ought to turn the man down at once. He was pervaded by a sense of her being. It was imbecile. Yet it was so. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 365ec3f | If you live among dogs they'll think you've the motives of a dog. What other motives can they give you ? | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 2a38be8 | You cannot control your imagination's pictures. Of | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 8a5c9b0 | These trenches are like Pompeii, sir. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 889bfc0 | He had a great deal to think of if he was to get the hang of - he was certainly not going to interfere with - the world and having to listen to conversations that were mostly moral apophthegms had tired him. He got too many at too short intervals. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 95d2de0 | Old Campion had once said that he believed - he positively believed, with shudders - that Christopher desired to live in the spirit of Christ. That had seemed horrible to the general, but Mark did not see that it was horrible, per se.... He doubted, however, whether Christ would have refused to manage Groby had it been his job. Christ was a sort of an Englishman and Englishmen did not as a rule refuse to do their jobs.... They had not used .. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 593a9ce | You'll come with me, my little man,' Sylvia said, 'if you ever want to bask in my smile again.... | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 355d359 | But, in these later days, much greater convulsions had overwhelmed her. It sufficed for Tietjens to approach her to make her feel as if her whole body was drawn towards him as, being near a terrible height, you are drawn towards it. Great waves of blood rushed across her being as if physical forces as yet undiscovered or invented attracted the very fluid itself. The moon so draws the tides. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 813cdc0 | I am not going to be so American as to say that all true love demands some sacrifice. It doesn't. But I think that love will be truer and more permanent in which self-sacrifice has been exacted. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 151ed63 | I suppose that my inner soul - my dual personality - had realized long before that Florence was a personality of paper - that she represented a real human being with a heart, with feelings, with sympathies and with emotions only as a bank-note represents a certain quantity of gold. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| c942a33 | She had Authority conferred on her. Metempsychosistically. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 1c919f0 | In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection. Yet first impressions have always a bias in their favour, and even quiet reflection has often a job to efface them. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| bd34d59 | That monstrosity you honour with your name - which is also mine, thank you! | name no-more-parades parade-s-end | Ford Madox Ford | |
| 5fac362 | Now a man listening to gossip about another man whom he knows very well will go pretty far in the way of believing what a beautiful woman will tell him about that other man. Beauty and truth have a way of appearing to be akin; and it is true that no man knows what another man is doing when he is out of sight. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| bc2faf8 | Old Campion had once said he believed - he positively believed, with shudders - that Christopher desired to live in the spirit of Christ. That had seemed horrible to the general, but Mark did not see that it was horrible, ... He doubted, however, whether Christ would have refused to manage Groby had it been his job. Christ was sort of an Englishman and Englishmen did not as rule refuse their jobs... They had not used to; now no doubt they .. | englishmen tietjens | Ford Madox Ford | |
| 721ae1f | Ruggles disliked Christopher Tietjens with the inveterate dislike of the man who revels in gossip for the man who never gossips. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 0f58be0 | By God!' Christopher exclaimed. 'I loathe your whole beastly buttered-toast, mutton-chopped, carpet-slippered, rum-negused comfort as much as I loathe your beastly Riviera-palaced, chauffeured, hydraulic-lifted, hot-house aired beastliness of fornication.... | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 634ce8f | A gentleman in those days consulted his heirs about tree planting. Should you plant a group of copper beeches against a group of white maples over against the ha-ha a quarter of a mile from the house so that the contrast seen from the ball-room windows should be agreeable--in thirty years' time? In those days thought, in families, went in periods of thirty years, owner gravely consulting heir who should see that development of light and sha.. | treeplanting | Ford Madox Ford | |
| 8548678 | We talked of it, of course, but I guess Florence got all she wanted out of one look at a place. She had the seeing eye. I haven't, unfortunately, so that the world is full of places to which I want to return. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| f8b7e9e | 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. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 6fe41b6 | For love is like a journey in mountainous country, up through the clouds, and down into the shadows to an unknown destination. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| c7edd75 | Words passed, but words could no more prove an established innocence than words can enhance a love that exists. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| a9130dd | And she knew too: she had always known under her mind and now she confessed it; her agony had been, half of it, because one day he would say farewell to her, like that, with the inflexion of a verb. As, just occasionally, using the word 'we' - and perhaps without intention - he had let her know that he loved her. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| aad6dfb | She warned him that, if he got killed, she should cut down the great cedar at the south-west corner of Groby. It kept all the light out of the principal drawing-room and the bedrooms above it.... He winced: he certainly winced at that. She regretted that she had said it. It was along other lines that she desired to make him wince. | cutting no-more-parades parade-s-end sylvia-tietjens tree warning wince | Ford Madox Ford | |
| c02207c | The second message is one that I have saved for weeks. It's Otter, and he simply says, "I love you." | T.J. Klune | ||
| 458f322 | I am Lulu Deerdancer and I am twenty-nine years old and I am perfectly legal to enter this here homosexual establishment and partake in beverages and repetitive techno music." "Because you both have been here before." "Yes," I said. "Hmm," the bouncer said. Then Paul sneezed and his mustache flew off his face and landed on the cheek of the bouncer. The silence that followed was slightly awkward. "Huh," Paul said. "I guess that's easier than.. | T.J. Klune | ||
| 0855b5c | At the beginning of the war...I had to look in on the War Office, and in a room I found a fellow...What do you think he was doing...what the hell do you think he was doing? He was devising the ceremonial for the disbanding of a Kitchener battalion. You can't say we were not prepared in one matter at least.... Well, the end of the show was to be: the adjutant would stand the battalion at ease; the band would play Land of Hope and Glory, and .. | passing-of-time tragedy world-war-1 | Ford Madox Ford | |
| 9ac1d7d | Is the whole thing a folly and a mockery? Am I no better than a eunuch or is the proper man--the man with the right to existence--a raging stallion forever neighing after his neighbor's womankind? I don't know. And there is nothing to guide us. And if everything is so nebulous about a matter so elementary as the morals of sex, what is there to guide us in the more subtle morality of all other personal contacts, associations, and activities?.. | Ford Madox Ford |