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A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.

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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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If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.
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A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.
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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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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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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.
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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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Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.
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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 critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.
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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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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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Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.
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The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.
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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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The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.
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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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... 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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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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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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