Meandering . . .

Today is the birthday of Ford Madox Ford (December 17, 1873 – June 26, 1939), novelist, poet, critic and editor. He is oft referred to as one of the founding fathers of English Modernism.

"We are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other."
- Ford Madox Ford

"It is a queer and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has got the wrong thing. Perhaps you can make head or tail of it; it is beyond me."
- Ford Madox Ford

"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?"
- Ford Madox Ford

"Society must go on, I suppose, and society can only exist if the normal, if the virtuous, and the slightly deceitful flourish, and if the passionate, the headstrong, and the too-truthful are condemned to suicide and to madness."
- Ford Madox Ford

"What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself."
- Ford Madox Ford

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