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Pamela Hansford Johnson: We demand that...

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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.

Source: Night and Silence, Who is Here? --An American Comedy, ch. 23, 1963.
-- Pamela Hansford Johnson, (May 29 1912-1981), English critic, author; She was a versatile writer of psychological novels and literary studies, e.g., Catherine Carter, 1952.


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