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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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Science Fiction Writer
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Whitby
North Yorkshire
Margaret Storm Jameson
Margaret Ethel Storm Jameson
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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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Language is memory and metaphor.
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Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.
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The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.
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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 minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.
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Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.
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My mind is not suited to go much into company.
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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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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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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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Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.
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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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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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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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A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.
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Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.
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A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.
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invaders always destroy libraries.
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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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