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Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.

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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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Chimneys
Blazing
Ambitions
Ambition

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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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The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.
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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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The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.
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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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Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.
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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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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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You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.
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The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.
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A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.
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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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Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.
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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 young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.
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Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.
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Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.
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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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
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