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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.
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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Whitby
North Yorkshire
Margaret Storm Jameson
Margaret Ethel Storm Jameson
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Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.
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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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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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You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.
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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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Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.
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The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.
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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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Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.
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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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My mind is not suited to go much into company.
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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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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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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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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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... 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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The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.
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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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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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