Pamela Hansford Johnson quotes
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“The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.”
-- Pamela Hansford JohnsonSource : Pamela Hansford Johnson (1981). “The Unspeakable Skipton”
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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.”
-- Pamela Hansford JohnsonSource : Pamela Hansford Johnson (2012). “Night and Silence, Who is Here?”, p.116, Pan Macmillan
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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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“I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.”
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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.”
-- Pamela Hansford JohnsonSource : Source: www.sfsignal.com
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“Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.”
-- Pamela Hansford JohnsonSource : Pamela Hansford Johnson (2012). “Night and Silence, Who is Here?”, p.117, Pan Macmillan
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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.”
-- Pamela Hansford JohnsonSource : Pamela Hansford Johnson (2012). “Night and Silence, Who is Here?”, p.116, Pan Macmillan
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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.”
-- Pamela Hansford JohnsonSource : Pamela Hansford Johnson (2012). “Night and Silence, Who is Here?”, p.117, Pan Macmillan
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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.”
-- Pamela Hansford JohnsonSource : Pamela Hansford Johnson (1952). “Catherine Carter: A Novel”, London Macmillan 1952.
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“My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.”
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“In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.”
Source : "Insatiable creatures" by Adam Phillips, August 7, 2009.
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