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• The writer - more especially the novelist - who has not, at one moment or another, considered his publisher unworthy of him, has still to be conceived.

  Storm Jameson

  Novelists, Moments, Stills

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 1: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.44, A&C Black

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• Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

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  Literature, Sadistic, Torture

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.69, A&C Black

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

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  Dying, Chance, Novel

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.37, A&C Black

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• Inevitably, the flood of literary pornography loosed on us is dulling our reactions of surprise or shock. Its writers are forced to raise the ante, to provide stronger and stronger stimulants. Or try to provide them, since both the manner, the naming of parts and the few inexpressive four-letter words, and the matter, are narrowly limited.

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  Trying, Stronger, Matter

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

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  Self, Smell, Comic

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

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  Sex, Squirrels, Serious

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• An intelligent man or woman willing to make a career of reviewing fiction is hard to come by ... And the temporaries do the work cheaply. Moreover, continuity may be got at the expense of intellectual arthritis; a reviewer who has been at his grisly task for half a lifetime may stiffen into prejudices of every sort, and become too anchylosed to do better than turn his back to a new wave when it rushes down on him.

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  Intelligent, Men, Careers

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• To reject censorship after studying the risks involved is very well. To reject it ex cathedra, in the tones of Calvin pronouncing a dogma, eyes and mind closed to the possible consequences, the even marginally possible, is to make things too comfortable for oneself.

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  Eye, Risk, Mind

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.67, A&C Black

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

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  Censorship, Sadistic, Form

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.70, A&C Black

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• Fear is the deep motive of abstract art - fear of a repellent civilization which is dominated by the power of things. ... who can be surprised if, more sensitive than the others, the artist is terrified by the power things have acquired over us?

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  Art, Civilization, Sensitive

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• Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.

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  Emotional, Expression, Advertising

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Company Parade”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• ... the stomach is near the heart and one appetite pricks on another.

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  Heart, Appetite, Stomach

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• Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.

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  Disease, Violence, Novelists

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.112, A&C Black

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• each time that I have run away - and from a habit it quickly became an illness - I have betrayed someone. Myself, but not always only myself.

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  Running, Betrayed, Illness

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