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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.
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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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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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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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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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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Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.
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