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.
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 Johnson
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 Johnson
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 Johnson
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.
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. - Pamela Hansford Johnson
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
Sainthood is acceptable only in saints. - Pamela Hansford Johnson
Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable. - Pamela Hansford Johnson
I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
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 ours… - Pamela Hansford Johnson
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 ours…
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 … - Pamela Hansford Johnson
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 …
Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you. - Pamela Hansford Johnson
Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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… - Pamela Hansford Johnson
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…
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