Storm Jameson - Journey from the north (1969)

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For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

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She disappeared silently — like a cat slipping out of the larder.

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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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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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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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If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature.

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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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Any marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings — many of them abortive.

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I used words without precautions. I wanted to disappear into them, I fled into the bovaryism of the writer trying to create an effect.

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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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A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.

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The writer — more especially the novelist — who has not, at one moment or another, considered his publisher unworthy of him, has still to be conceived.

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The whole of society in Washington is to some degree political. It is like no other capital city known to me, in that political thinking, the whole business, technical and personal, of politics, is not diluted by an equal interest in art, industry, amusement, anything you like. I don't meant that these are non-existent in Washington -- only that they are subdued to the ruling passion.

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