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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 79b388d | Esme discovers the earrings and dons them, but Wyatt has already spurned her by that point. Not until the last page on which he appears does he realize the importance of the earrings; by intending to pass them along to his daughter, he demonstrates his recognition of the emotions and especially the strongest, most liberating emotion of all, love.46 Not the sentimental love of romantics, nor the lust of sensualists: the kind of love Wyatt em.. | Steven Moore | ||
| c0f0fed | It was a forged Titian that somebody had painted over another old painting, when they scraped the forged Titian away they found some worthless old painting underneath it, the forger had used it because it was an old canvas. But then there was something under that worthless painting, and they scraped it off and underneath that they found a Titian, a real Titian that had been there all the time. It was as though when the forger was working, a.. | Steven Moore | ||
| d4cf7d3 | What do you mean do I go around with narcotics signing petitions painting slop writing books full of dirty words with a beard? | William Gaddis | ||
| d40a028 | Putin learned from reading the William King and David Cleland textbook in the 1980s and 1990s, planning for uncertainty is the most important element of strategy. | Clifford G. Gaddy | ||
| f2df910 | But not in this world: things wore out, and you lost them in a thousand ways, preposterous and unconnected with any notion of devotion, martyrdom, sacrifice | William Gaddis | ||
| e56246c | And that is why people read novels, to identify projections of their own unconscious. The hero has to be fearfully real, to convince them of their own reality, which they rather doubt. A novel without a hero would be distracting in the extreme. They have to know what you think, or good heavens, how can they know that you're going through some wild conflict, which is after all the duty of a hero. | William Gaddis | ||
| 755e4c5 | She can paint herself red and hang on the wall and whistle, I don't care | William Gaddis | ||
| d069f7c | During the investigation, he tried a brief defense of his medical practice on the grounds that he had once assisted a vivisectionist in Tampa, Florida; and when this failed, he settled down to sullen grumbling about the Jews, earthly vanity, and quoted bits from Ecclesiastes, Alfonso Liguori, and Pope Pius IX, in answer to any accusatory question. | earthly-vanity jews pope-pius-ix | William Gaddis | |
| db97e90 | He had, by now, the look of a man who was waiting for something which had happened long before. | William Gaddis | ||
| 23c868e | might not know art but they knew what they liked, | William Gaddis | ||
| c1a20c5 | What greater comfort does time afford, than the objects of terror re-encountered, and their fraudulence exposed in the flash of reason? | William Gaddis | ||
| c23cc20 | the perpetual disruptive nature of youth generally. "Desolation," yes, but also a child's sense of immediacy, the capacity to enter into the moment-by-moment flow of life as it unfolds, not trying to make narrative sense of one's situation, and not caring overmuch if the whole setup comes crashing down." | Joseph Tabbi | ||
| d770941 | resurrection a dispensable preoccupation for one who had not yet lived. | William Gaddis | ||
| 13e312e | It was in the Depot Tavern that he received condolences, accepted funerary offers of drink, and, when these recognitions were exhausted, he sank into the habit of talking familiarly about persons and places unknown to his cronies, so that several of them suspected him of reading. | William Gaddis | ||
| 3885b98 | Ch. VIII Mystery in Art, p. 179-180 | Auguste Rodin | ||
| 15a11ff | My principles are the laws of experience. | Auguste Rodin | ||
| e9b7583 | I am not a rhetorician, but a man of action. | Auguste Rodin | ||
| 6648452 | One can never do anything so beautiful as nature. | Auguste Rodin | ||
| 85e7a83 | We were fitted neither for defeat nor for victory: we could be true to neither friend nor foe. Not even to ourselves! | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 4b820aa | It has been remarked that the peculiarly English habit of self-suppression in matters of the emotion puts the Englishman at a great disadvantage in moments of unusual stresses. In the smaller matters of the general run of life he will be impeccable and not to be moved; but in sudden confrontations of anything but physical dangers he is apt--he is, indeed, almost certain--to go to pieces very badly. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 1e1fbc5 | I know!' Father Consett said. 'You're a beautiful woman. Some men would say it was a lucky fellow that lived with you. I don't ignore the fact in my cogitation. He'd imagine all sorts of delights to lurk in the shadow of your beautiful hair. And they wouldn't.' Sylvia brought her gaze down from the ceiling and fixed her brown eyes for a moment on the priest, speculatively. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| dc86bb4 | I Tietjens, ktory nie nienawidzil nikogo, majac przed soba prostolinijnego czlowieka typu szkolnego kolegi, zaczal rozmyslac nad tym, jak to ludzkosc traktowana jednostkowo byla niemal zawsze sympatyczna, w swej masie zas stawala sie zjawiskiem ohydnym. | mankind parade-s-end some-do-not | Ford Madox Ford | |
| 68e184c | Przepraszam, ze bylam dla pana nieuprzejma. Ale to naprawde irytujace, ze stoi sie jak wypchany krolik, podczas gdy mezczyzna odgrywa Prawdziwego Dzentelmena, chlodnego i zorganizowanego, z cala poza ziemianina i wszystkim. | parade-s-end some-do-not stuffed-rabbit valentine-wannop | Ford Madox Ford | |
| 8aaa06a | Jest pan zadziwiajacy, jak na mezczyzne, ktory stara sie zachowywac jak ukwial! | sea-anemone some-do-not valentine-wannop | Ford Madox Ford | |
| c666572 | It was the mentality that obsessed him: the exact mind, the impatience of solecisms and facile generalizations!... A queer catalogue of the charms of one's lady love!... But he wanted to hear her say: "Oh, chuck it, Edith Ethel!" when Edith Ethel Duchemin, now of course Lady Macmaster, quoted some of the opinions expressed in Macmaster's critical monograph about the late Mr Rossetti... How very late now!" | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 5364409 | A man's books are very much himself. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 7c87ad3 | Yes, society must go on; it must breed, like rabbits. That is what we are here for. But then, I don't like society--much. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| ea5c34d | One's friends ought to believe that one is a gentleman. Automatically. That is what makes one and them in harmony. Probably your friends are your friends because they look at situations automatically as you look at them... | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| c4b5934 | No, the essence of prayer is volition, so the essence of blasphemy is volition. She | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| e14e8ec | Christ was a sort of an Englishman, and Englishmen did not, as a rule, refuse to do their jobs . | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| bc571af | She had suddenly a clear view of him as a man extraordinarily clear-sighted in the affairs of others, in great affairs, but in his own so simple as to be almost a baby. And gentle! And extraordinarily unselfish. He didn't betray one thought of self-interest... not one. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| f59a668 | But charity begins surely with the char! | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 2a7bdc5 | An Englishman's duty is to secure for himself for ever reasonable clothing, a clean shirt a day, a couple of mutton-chops grilled without condiments, two floury potatoes, an apple-pie with a piece of Stilton and pulled bread, a pint of Club Medoc, a clean room, in the winter a good fire in the grate, a comfortable armchair, a comfortable woman to see that all these were prepared for you, to keep you warm in bed and to brush your bowler and .. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| f0b04dd | She at least was broad-minded, and moreover she understood the workings of the human heart. It was creditable for a man to ruin himself for the object of his affections. But this at least she found exaggerated. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| bb23fdf | At the same time, Mrs de Bray Pape was saying things to the discredit of Marie Antoinette, whom apparently she disliked. He could not imagine why anyone should dislike Marie Antoinette. Yet very likely she was dislikeable. The French, who were sensible people, had cut her head off, so they presumably disliked her . . | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| bdad45a | The rocks would be there a million years after the light went for the last time out. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 993a65a | Dziwna to byla przyjazn, ale dziwnosc przyjazni czesto gwarantuje jej trwalosc. | in-polish parade-s-end some-do-not | Ford Madox Ford | |
| 036487f | Czlowiek nie musi zyc wsrod metow spoleczenstwa, aby nie uslyszec nic o metach towarzystwa. | some-do-not | Ford Madox Ford | |
| e7aaa15 | Chodz, napijemy sie ginu. Oto prawdziwa odpowiedz na wszystkie parszywe problemy. | answer general-campion gin parade-s-end problems some-do-not | Ford Madox Ford | |
| 88500f0 | though no man can choose the land of his birth or his ancestry, he can, if he have industry and determination, so watch over himself as materially to modify his automatic habits-- | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 3efb4ee | Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. | Auguste Rodin | ||
| 4ddac74 | It enhanced his views of strictly respectable humanity. They blackmailed you with lamentable and pathetic tales and then did the dirty on you. He said | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 524f5dd | Sylvia was a lady and would not allow herself really to care for the person in the world for whom it would be least decent of her to care...But | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| a07058f | she had always considered that, far from the world of Ealing and its county councillors who over-ate and neighed like stallions, there were bright colonies of beings, chaste, beautiful in thought, altruist and circumspect. And, till that moment, she had imagined | Ford Madox Ford |