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Pamela Hansford Johnson

Pamela Hansford Johnson, Baroness Snow, CBE, FRSL (29 May 1912 – 18 June 1981) was an English novelist, playwright, poet, literary and social critic.

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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.

Sarcastic, Wife, Horny, Slam, Politician, Make

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.

Beauty, Buyer, Loss, Moving, Sunset, Wall

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.

Demand, Details, Homogeneity, People, Portraits, True

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

Egg, Fire, Like, Sky, Sunset

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.

Artistic, Lack, Moral, Quality, Saint

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

Believe, Fond, Humor, Jests, Level, Men

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.

People, Thinking, Thought, Way, Write, Writing

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Acceptable, Inspirational, Saint, Sainthood, Saints

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

Bangs, Hated, Tolerable, War, Would Be

John of Ruysbroeck

John of Ruysbroeck

John Heilemann

John Heilemann

Chris Guillebeau

Chris Guillebeau

Edward Stettinius, Jr.

Edward Stettinius, Jr.

Kevin Clash

Kevin Clash

Jackie Gayle

Jackie Gayle

Canibus

Canibus

James K. Baxter

James K. Baxter

Guthrie Govan

Guthrie Govan

Marguerite Moreau

Marguerite Moreau

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

David Lean

David Lean