Storm Jameson
Storm Jameson
Margaret Storm Jamesonwas an English journalist and author, known for her novels and reviews...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth8 January 1891
live-in-the-present tricks really-living
Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.
literature sadistic cruelty
Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.
law literature giver
The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.
intelligent men careers
An intelligent man or woman willing to make a career of reviewing fiction is hard to come by ... And the temporaries do the work cheaply. Moreover, continuity may be got at the expense of intellectual arthritis; a reviewer who has been at his grisly task for half a lifetime may stiffen into prejudices of every sort, and become too anchylosed to do better than turn his back to a new wave when it rushes down on him.
eye risk mind
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.
censorship sadistic traps
Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?
taken wine tables
to grow old is to have taken away, one by one, all gifts of life, the food and wine, the music and the company. ... the gods unloose, one by one, the mortal fingers that cling to the edge of the table.
emotional expression advertising
Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.
compromise planets misandry
If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.
cities invisible ifs
I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.
insomnia impossible moments
The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.
successful men thinking
Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?
loyalty law space
Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.
unique men animal
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.