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• The least stupid question a man asks in his lifetime is not: Is there a God and is He a god or a devil? But: Brother, why are you killing me?

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  Brother, Stupid, Men

  Storm Jameson (1956). “The Intruder”, London Macmillan 1956.

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

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  Sex, Squirrels, Serious

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  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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• 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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• 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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