"I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often."

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Source : "Ned Beauman: 'What sticks in my mind is praise from the wrong people'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2012.

Ned Beauman

#Soldier Quotes

“I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.”
“Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify...no normal human being will ever be able to identify with Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, Eichmann, and endless others. This dismays us, and at the same time gives us a sense of relief, because perhaps it is desirable that their words (and also, unfortunately, their deeds) cannot be comprehensible to us. They are non-human words and deeds, really counter-human...”
“This building we're in has doors and windows. If we close the doors and windows, we can't get out. People lock themselves inside a house of delusions. But they're only delusions. They can leave anytime. Actually there is no house to leave. There's not even any leaving. What we see are flowers in the sky, the moon in the water. As for the meditative powers of Zen masters like Hsu-yun, sometimes it's useful to meditate and sometimes it isn't.”

Source : Bill Porter (2009). “Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China”, p.328, Counterpoint Press
“In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight.”
“I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.”

Source : "It's curtains for Okrent". Interview with Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.
“Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.”
“There is a compelling case showing us that we actually change people all the time. And when we fully realize this, we start to see how powerful we are to get others unstuck, see that their behavior matters, and start taking steps to create happiness and success in their lives.”
“I keep all of my letters, postcards, and thank you notes. I'll keep them forever!”

Source : "10 Questions: Jane Levy". Interview with Yale Breslin, www.elle.com. July 3, 2012.

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