Storm Jameson

All pornography is to a degree sadistic - inevitably.

— Storm Jameson

Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.

— Storm Jameson

invaders always destroy libraries.

— Storm Jameson

My mind is not suited to go much into company.

— Storm Jameson

In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.

— Storm Jameson

A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.

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A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.

— Storm Jameson

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

— Storm Jameson

If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it.

— Storm Jameson

In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.

— Storm Jameson

jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.

— Storm Jameson

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

— Storm Jameson

Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.

— Storm Jameson

The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.

— Storm Jameson

Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.

— Storm Jameson

Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many…

— Storm Jameson

Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation,…

— Storm Jameson

a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous…

— Storm Jameson

There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are…

— Storm Jameson

One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death…

— Storm Jameson

A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas - on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor -…

— Storm Jameson

“We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves…

— Storm Jameson

The least stupid question a man asks in his lifetime is not: Is there a God and is He a god or…

— Storm Jameson

giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job…

— Storm Jameson

As often as not our whole self...engages itself in the most trivial of things, the shape of a particular hill, a road…

— Storm Jameson

To reject censorship after studying the risks involved is very well. To reject it ex cathedra, in the tones of Calvin pronouncing…

— Storm Jameson

All writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call…

— Storm Jameson

Inevitably, the flood of literary pornography loosed on us is dulling our reactions of surprise or shock. Its writers are forced to…

— Storm Jameson

An intelligent man or woman willing to make a career of reviewing fiction is hard to come by ... And the temporaries…

— Storm Jameson

I am persuaded that not a novel in ten thousand is of any use to a child to fit him for life.…

— Storm Jameson

... the whole of society in Washington is to some degree political. It is like no other capital city known to me,…

— Storm Jameson

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an…

— Storm Jameson

In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in…

— Storm Jameson

If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

— Storm Jameson

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

— Storm Jameson

Hope is a talent like any other.

— Storm Jameson

Failures to love are irremediable and irredeemable.

— Storm Jameson

Language is memory and metaphor.

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Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.

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She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

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