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Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.
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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Literature
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The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.
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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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Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.
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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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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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
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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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Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.
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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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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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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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Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.
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