A Boat Against the Current

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Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Quote of the Day (Ford Madox Ford, on Why People Can’t ‘Have What They Want’)

"Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing."— Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier (1915)

MikeT at 3:51 AM

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