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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
Writer
Whitby
North Yorkshire
Margaret Storm Jameson
Margaret Ethel Storm Jameson
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Existence
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Anything
Everything
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Men
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Humanity
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Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.
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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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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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A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.
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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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... 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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Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.
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A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.
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The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.
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Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.
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The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.
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