A. E. Coppard Quotes

• Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.

  A. E. Coppard

  Mom, Mother, Son

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• Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.

  A. E. Coppard

  Atheist, Father, War

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• Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.

  A. E. Coppard

  Loneliness, Home, Wind

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