Josephine Hart
Josephine Hart
Josephine Hart, Baroness Saatchi, was an Irish writer, theatrical producer and television presenter who lived in London. Lady Saatchi wrote the novel Damage, which was the basis for the 1992 film of the same name, directed by Louis Malle and starring Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche and Rupert Graves...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionWriter
CountryIreland
survival vision elements
Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.
mother passionate facts
My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature
television arena
Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.
thinking reality accepting
I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.
lying omission waiting
A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered.
people survival pity
All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.
home wrath people
Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.
bird flight traps
For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird
time sacrifice men
Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice
age lucky odd
Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.
life soul landscape
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outline all our lives.
ambition winning games
To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.
art passion essentials
The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine. But in all essentials, my life was a good performance.
home water soul
There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines in our lives. Those who are lucky enough to find it, ease like water over a stone, onto its fluid contours, and are home.