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Stars, issue 1, June-July 1940
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THE GREATEST SIN - Margaret G Hays (All-Story, '17) 'Tis not the things we do Which damn us every day: 'Tis not the looks we give. 'Tis not the words we say. Great actions - left undone; Live hopes - forced to lie dead Cold, empty looks, and oh All loving thoughts - unsaid! CRYSTAL THOUGHTS "There is a sort of dead - alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation. When they do not require to go to the office, when they are not hungry and have no mind for drink, the whole breathing world is a black to them. If they have to wait an hour or so for a train, they fall into a stupid trance with their eyes open." Robert Louis Stevenson "If a work containing a message endures through the generations it will be because the doors of escape have been built so cleverly as to continue to lure readers with a magic invitation. Herein, to my mind, lies the chief accomplishment and the chief glory of literature -- and I may add, of poetry above all other literary forms... It is for this reason that the words "literature of escape" constitute in my eyes not a term of reproach but a garland of supreme merit." Stanton A. Coblentz "Literature Is Escape" "You will agree with me that life in itself, the mere passage of the mind and senses through the cold medium of time, is unpleasant, really very painful. We all take infinite pains to protect ourselves against it. Those who have nothing to do, sleep if they can, and if they can't go mad. The pleasures of thought, contemplation itself are also a protection against life. The study of literature is the noblest distraction, and teaches us how noble men have distracted themselves in the past." Ronald Fraser "Flower Phantoms" "Never attempt to bear more than one kind of trouble at once. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had - all they have now, and all they ever expect to have. " Edward Everett Hale "Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul." Maurice Maeterlinek "Time is a rare and lovely gift that is lost the more it is pursued." James Hilton "Lost Horizon" "A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health and quiet breathing."- John Keats
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THE GREATEST SIN - Margaret G Hays (All-Story, '17) 'Tis not the things we do Which damn us every day: 'Tis not the looks we give. 'Tis not the words we say. Great actions - left undone; Live hopes - forced to lie dead Cold, empty looks, and oh All loving thoughts - unsaid! CRYSTAL THOUGHTS "There is a sort of dead - alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation. When they do not require to go to the office, when they are not hungry and have no mind for drink, the whole breathing world is a black to them. If they have to wait an hour or so for a train, they fall into a stupid trance with their eyes open." Robert Louis Stevenson "If a work containing a message endures through the generations it will be because the doors of escape have been built so cleverly as to continue to lure readers with a magic invitation. Herein, to my mind, lies the chief accomplishment and the chief glory of literature -- and I may add, of poetry above all other literary forms... It is for this reason that the words "literature of escape" constitute in my eyes not a term of reproach but a garland of supreme merit." Stanton A. Coblentz "Literature Is Escape" "You will agree with me that life in itself, the mere passage of the mind and senses through the cold medium of time, is unpleasant, really very painful. We all take infinite pains to protect ourselves against it. Those who have nothing to do, sleep if they can, and if they can't go mad. The pleasures of thought, contemplation itself are also a protection against life. The study of literature is the noblest distraction, and teaches us how noble men have distracted themselves in the past." Ronald Fraser "Flower Phantoms" "Never attempt to bear more than one kind of trouble at once. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had - all they have now, and all they ever expect to have. " Edward Everett Hale "Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul." Maurice Maeterlinek "Time is a rare and lovely gift that is lost the more it is pursued." James Hilton "Lost Horizon" "A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health and quiet breathing."- John Keats
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