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

—Pamela Hansford Johnson

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About Pamela Hansford Johnson

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

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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 Johnson

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Love is all fire; and so heaven and hell are the same place.

—Thomas Merton

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I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.

—Steven Wright

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

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You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.

—George Burns

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The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

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