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Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.

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
Writer
Whitby
North Yorkshire
Margaret Storm Jameson
Margaret Ethel Storm Jameson
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Chimneys
Blazing
Ambitions
Ambition
Writing

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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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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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A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.
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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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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 young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.
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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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Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?
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Language is memory and metaphor.
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Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.
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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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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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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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If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.
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Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.
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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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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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Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.
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