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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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Pornography is essentially reductive, an exercise in the nothing-but mode, a depersonalizing of the human beings involved, a showing-up of human lust as nothing but an affair of the genitals.
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Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.
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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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Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.
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A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.
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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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A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.
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Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.
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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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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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Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.
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I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city it is as if I had become invisible.
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As often as not our whole self...engages itself in the most trivial of things, the shape of a particular hill, a road in the town in which we lived as children, the movement of wind in grass. The things we shall take with us when we die will nearly all be small things.
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Fear is the deep motive of abstract art - fear of a repellent civilization which is dominated by the power of things. ... who can be surprised if, more sensitive than the others, the artist is terrified by the power things have acquired over us?
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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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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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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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Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.
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The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.
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