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• ... I used words without precautions. I wanted to disappear into them, I fled into the bovaryism of the writer trying to create an effect.

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  Trying, Disappear, Used

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.399, A&C Black

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• I am persuaded that not a novel in ten thousand is of any use to a child to fit him for life. The most are of use only to unfit him -- to blunt his senses and infect him with the writers' poor silly sentiments. Nine out of ten novelists deserve to be prosecuted under an Adulterated Emotions Act.

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  Children, Silly, Use

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• a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous cost. Paid, so far as I am concerned, joyfully.

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  Cost, Firsts, Clarity

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.118, A&C Black

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

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  Ideas, World, Defeated

  Storm Jameson (1926). “Three kingdoms”

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• There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.

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  Life, World, Minutes

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• Very rare, the intelligence of the heart. The intelligence of the whimsical brain is less rare, less attaching, sometimes tedious.

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  Heart, Brain, Sometimes

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.89, A&C Black

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• 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

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• I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind.

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  Lying, Thinking, Mind

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

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• Truth is the only good and the purest pity. ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison, but a lie that is told for pity or shame breeds such a host of ills that no power on earth can compass their redemption.

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  Lying, Men, Earth

  Storm Jameson (1922). “The Clash”

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

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  Men, Moral, Wells

  Storm Jameson (1966). “The Early Life of Stephen Hind”

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• giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job for a superwoman, and only some such fabled being could have accomplished it with success.

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  Jobs, Motherhood, Careers

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• All pornography is to a degree sadistic - inevitably.

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  Degrees, Sadistic, Pornography

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.59, A&C Black

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• One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.

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  Past, Long, Steps

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.402, A&C Black

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• 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.

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  Writing, Reality, Skeletons

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

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

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  Lying, Use, Advertising

  Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.38, A&C Black

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• My mind is not suited to go much into company.

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  Mind, Company

  Storm Jameson (1934). “Company parade”, Knopf

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• In Europe, war is a disease which has been in the family for generations: no one is surprised when it makes another leap. Even the patient only attends to it with part of his mind.

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  War, Europe, Mind

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

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  Compromise, Misandry, Planets

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• Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

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  Loyalty, Law, Space

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• A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas - on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor - unless he means something else, quite different - is a rogue.

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  Mean, Honor, Fleas

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• ... the whole of society in Washington is to some degree political. It is like no other capital city known to me, in that political thinking, the whole business, technical and personal, of politics, is not diluted by an equal interest in art, industry, amusement, anything you like. I don't meant that these are non-existent in Washington -- only that they are subdued to the ruling passion.

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  Art, Passion, Thinking

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.240, A&C Black

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• As often as not our whole self...engages itself in the most trivial of things, the shape of a particular hill, a road in the town in which we lived as children, the movement of wind in grass. The things we shall take with us when we die will nearly all be small things.

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  Life, Children, Self

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• Writers sometimes talk as though they were the only friends of civilization. This is their conceit. But they have special powers to serve -- or to corrupt -- civilization, and are obliged to use them.

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  Civilization, Special, Use

  Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.131, A&C Black

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• The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.

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  Men, Redemption, Goes On

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.408, A&C Black

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• The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.

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  Generations, Movement, Gestures

  Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.32, A&C Black

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