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

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  Heart, Appetite, Stomach

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

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  Compromise, Misandry, Planets

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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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• 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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