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The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.
Storm Jameson
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Storm Jameson
Age: 95 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 8
Died: 1986
Died: September 30
Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Whitby
North Yorkshire
Margaret Storm Jameson
Margaret Ethel Storm Jameson
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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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A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas - on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor - unless he means something else, quite different - is a rogue.
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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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A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.
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A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.
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If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.
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Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.
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My mind is not suited to go much into company.
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Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.
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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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Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.
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The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.
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... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much.
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Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.
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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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Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.
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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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