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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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... 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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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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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 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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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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... 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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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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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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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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Born: January 8, 1891
Died: September 30, 1986
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