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My mind is not suited to go much into company.

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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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Much
Mind

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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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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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The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.
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The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.
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The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.
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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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If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.
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