You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final … - Ford Madox Ford

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Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.

Ford Madox Ford

You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained. . . and exhausted. So that. . . That in effect was love.

Exhausted, Intimate Conversation, Love, Waiting, Week, Years

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

Angel, Beasts, Eden, Higher, Idiot

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?

Apples, Months, Rottenness, Six, Six Months, Years

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.

Agree, Book, Judging, Shout, Taste, Voice

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.

Character, Long, Real, Smell, Story

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.

Book, Exists, Keep, Novelists, Oblivious, Reading

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Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.

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I don't want to die, obviously, but really, the wonder of life is amplified by the fact that it ends.

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Norman Mailer

The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre. . . had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a nuance like an onion, but he had no sense of evil, the anguish of God, and the possible existence of Satan.

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John Campbell Shairp

There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing the natural thoughts about self in the thought of One higher than himself, to whose guidance he can commit himself and all men.

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Bill Hybels

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

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