Storm Jameson Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Language is memory and metaphor.

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  Memories, Language, Metaphor

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.5, A&C Black

• Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.

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  Rotten, Literature, Language

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.25, A&C Black

• Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.

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  Wall, Humanity, Language

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.24, A&C Black

• The older I grow the more sharply I mistrust words. So few of them have any meaning left. It is impossible to write one sentence in which every word has the bareness and hardness of bones, the reality of the skeleton.

  Storm Jameson

  Writing, Reality, Skeletons

  Storm Jameson (1933). “No time like the present”

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