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

No one asks public men to be strictly moral, but they must seem to be well-behaved.

— Storm Jameson

Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?

— Storm Jameson

From so much of this seriously-intended pornography there rises, even when it is lewdly or boisterously comic, the acrid smell, unmistakable, of…

— 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

each time that I have run away - and from a habit it quickly became an illness - I have betrayed someone.…

— Storm Jameson

Language is memory and metaphor.

— 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

Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.

— 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

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians,…

— Storm Jameson

I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one…

— Storm Jameson

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

— 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

the sex even in serious pornography has less singularity than the mating of squirrels.

— Storm Jameson

Truth is the only good and the purest pity. ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison,…

— Storm Jameson