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You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.
Storm Jameson
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Storm Jameson
Age: 95 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 8
Died: 1986
Died: September 30
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Whitby
North Yorkshire
Margaret Storm Jameson
Margaret Ethel Storm Jameson
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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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Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.
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The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.
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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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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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Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.
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There is only one world the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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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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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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The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.
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Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.
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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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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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