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Ford Madox Ford was an influential British novelist known for his contributions to modernist literature. His works are characterized by complex narrative structures and profound psychological descriptions. Born on December 17, 1873, he passed away on June 26, 1939.

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“I Tietjens, który nie nienawidził nikogo, mając przed sobą prostolinijnego człowieka typu szkolnego kolegi, zaczął rozmyślać nad tym, jak to ludzkość traktowana jednostkowo była niemal zawsze sympatyczna, w swej masie zaś stawała się zjawiskiem ohydnym.”

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“But to betray her with battalion... That is against decency, against Nature...And for him, Christopher tietjens, to come down to the level of the men you met here!”

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“It was probably indecent to think of a corpse as impotent. But he was, very likely. That would be why his wife had taken up with the prize-fighter Red Evans Williams of Castell Goch.”

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“being a miner he sat on his heels more comfortably than on a chair”

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“The exact eye: exact observation: it was a man's work. The only work for a man. Why then were artists soft: effeminate: not men at all: whilst the army officer, who had the inexact mind of the schoolteacher, was a manly man? Quite a manly man: until he became an old woman!”

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“That monstrosity you honour with your name - which is also mine, thank you!”

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“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.”

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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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“W przedziale panował ledwo uchwytny, higieniczny zapach nadzwyczajnego lakieru, a pociąg biegł gładko niczym (później Tietjens przypomniał sobie to porównanie) brytyjskie papiery wartościowe gwarantowane przez rząd.”

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“Dziwna to była przyjaźń, ale dziwność przyjaźni często gwarantuje jej trwałość.”

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“Człowiek nie musi żyć wśród mętów społeczeństwa, aby nie usłyszeć nic o mętach towarzystwa.”

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“Chodź, napijemy się ginu. Oto prawdziwa odpowiedź na wszystkie parszywe problemy.”

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“Przepraszam, że byłam dla pana nieuprzejma. Ale to naprawdę irytujące, że stoi się jak wypchany królik, podczas gdy mężczyzna odgrywa Prawdziwego Dżentelmena, chłodnego i zorganizowanego, z całą pozą ziemianina i wszystkim.”

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“Jest pan zadziwiający, jak na mężczyznę, który stara się zachowywać jak ukwiał!”

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“- A! Tę wojnę będzie warto zobaczyć... Żadnego pijanego rzucania się do gardeł bandytów-imbecyli... - Moja matka by zwariowała! - powiedziała Sylwia. - Bynajmniej - odparł. - To ją podnieci, o ile dożyje.”

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About the Author

Born: December 17, 1873
Died: June 26, 1939
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 71

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