Storm Jameson Quotes - Page 3

• 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). "Tres reinos"

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 hay tiempo como el presente"

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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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• Muy rara, la inteligencia del corazón. La inteligencia del cerebro caprichoso es menos rara, menos apegada, a veces tediosa.

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  Heart, Brain, Sometimes

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.89, A&C Black

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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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• 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 hay tiempo como el presente"

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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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• Los escritores hablan a veces como si fueran los únicos amigos de la civilización. Ésa es su presunción. Pero tienen poderes especiales para servir -o corromper- a la civilización, y están obligados a utilizarlos.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 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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