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There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment.... Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
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He was talking with the inspired air of the man who fears silence and a full stop.
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The most deeply moving element in the contemplation of beauty is the element of loss. We desire to hold; but the sunset melts into the night, and the secret of the painting on the wall can never be the secret of the buyer.
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I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, 'Why, I've always thought that but never found the words for it.'
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Hatred had made his tongue taste dirty, had fouled his teeth.
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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait (as we have conceived it), in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
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Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
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Born:
May 29, 1912
Died:
June 19, 1981
(aged 69)
Bio:
Pamela Hansford Johnson, Baroness Snow was an English novelist, playwright, poet, literary and social critic.
Known for:
The unspeakable Skipton (1959)
An Error of Judgement (1962)
An impossible marriage (1954)
This Bed Thy Centre (1935)
The humbler creation (1959)
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