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Language is memory and metaphor.

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Storm Jameson
Age: 95 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 8
Died: 1986
Died: September 30
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Whitby
North Yorkshire
Margaret Storm Jameson
Margaret Ethel Storm Jameson
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Memory
Memories
Language

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I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind.
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There is only one world the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.
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Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.
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Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.
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The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.
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The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.
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Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.
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All writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call a concern to understand what is happening in the world, and must engage themselves, in their writing, to promote no comfortable lies, of the sort which people will pay well to be told rather than the truth.
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Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.
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To reject censorship after studying the risks involved is very well. To reject it ex cathedra, in the tones of Calvin pronouncing a dogma, eyes and mind closed to the possible consequences, the even marginally possible, is to make things too comfortable for oneself.
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Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.
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The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.
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A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.
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If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.
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If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature.
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Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?
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No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another the writer conveys his experience of life along a channel of communication closed to painter, mathematician, musician, film-maker.
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