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Storm Jameson
Age: 95 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 8
Died: 1986
Died: September 30
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Whitby
North Yorkshire
Margaret Storm Jameson
Margaret Ethel Storm Jameson
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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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... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much.
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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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If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature.
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The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.
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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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You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.
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My mind is not suited to go much into company.
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Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.
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Pornography is essentially reductive, an exercise in the nothing-but mode, a depersonalizing of the human beings involved, a showing-up of human lust as nothing but an affair of the genitals.
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Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.
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I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city it is as if I had become invisible.
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Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.
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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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The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.
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Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.
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No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another the writer conveys his experience of life along a channel of communication closed to painter, mathematician, musician, film-maker.
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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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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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