If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a … - Ford Madox Ford

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Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and purple bursts of spiny sea urchins.

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If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry. It makes it easier for me to report to the general if you say things dully and in the order that they happened.

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Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.

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If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn't it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?

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For the judging of contemporary literature the only test is one's personal taste. If you much like a new book, you must call it literature even though you find no other soul to agree with you, and if you dislike a book you must declare that it is not literature though a million voices should shout you that you are wrong. The ultimate decision will be made by Time.

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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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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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