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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.
Storm Jameson
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Storm Jameson
Age: 95 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 8
Died: 1986
Died: September 30
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Whitby
North Yorkshire
Margaret Storm Jameson
Margaret Ethel Storm Jameson
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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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A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.
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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
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Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.
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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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Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.
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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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Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.
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One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.
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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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The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.
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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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You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.
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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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My mind is not suited to go much into company.
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invaders always destroy libraries.
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