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• An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or blood. Cruelty begins with the memory, and the pleasures of the memory are impure; they draw their strength along levels where no sun has reached.

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  Memories, Animal, Blood

  Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.50, A&C Black

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• She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

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  Cooking, Cooks

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• No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life along a channel of communication closed to painter, mathematician, musician, film-maker.

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  Art, Communication, Musician

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.88, A&C Black

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• to grow old is to have taken away, one by one, all gifts of life, the food and wine, the music and the company. ... the gods unloose, one by one, the mortal fingers that cling to the edge of the table.

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  Taken, Wine, Tables

  Storm Jameson (1926). “Three kingdoms”

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• Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.

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  Animal, Unique, Men

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• In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.

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  France, Dogma, Heresy

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.39, A&C Black

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• Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit.

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  Memories, Habit, Ends

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• Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

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  Home, Europe, Cities

  Storm Jameson (1933). “Women against men”

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• A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

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  Lying, Optimistic, Noble

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

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• When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.

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  Revolution

  Storm Jameson (1922). “The Clash”

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• Any marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings - many of them abortive.

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  Names, Series

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 1: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.59, A&C Black

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• invaders always destroy libraries.

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  Library, Invaders

  Storm Jameson (2011). “The Moment of Truth”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

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  Jokes

  Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.69, A&C Black

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• Pornography is essentially reductive, an exercise in the nothing-but mode, a depersonalizing of the human beings involved, a showing-up of human lust as nothing but an affair of the genitals.

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  Exercise, Lust, Showing Up

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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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• In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in the loss of social and economic privilege, alarms so deeply that they are incapable of unprejudiced thought. They seem to themselves to be thinking, with lucidity and fairness, but since they start from the conviction that change must undoubtedly be for the worse or from settled grief at the thought of losing what is old and lovely, they are doing no more than following a logical sequence of ideas from a false premise.

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  Grief, Loss, Thinking

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• If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature.

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  Thinking, Energy, Events

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

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• ... we do not remember people as they were. What we remember is the effect they had on us then, but we remember it through an emotion charged with all that has since happened to us.

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  People, Emotion, Remember

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• Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

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  Success, Men, Thinking

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

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  Jealousy, Mind, Suffering

  Storm Jameson (1946). “The other side”, New York, The Macmillan company

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

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  Law, Literature, Giver

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.78, A&C Black

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

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  War, Growth, Symptoms

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.13, A&C Black

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• Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.

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  Heart, Long, Fiction

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.2, A&C Black

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• 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

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• All writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call a concern to understand what is happening in the world, and must engage themselves, in their writing, to promote no comfortable lies, of the sort which people will pay well to be told rather than the truth.

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  Lying, Writing, People

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