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
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.
nerves matter cruelty
What I do not know and cannot even hope to understand before I die is why human beings are willfully, coldly, matter-of-factly cruel to each other ... What nerve has atrophied in the torturer, or worse is sensually moved?
gestures next generations
The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.
novelists moments stills
The writer - more especially the novelist - who has not, at one moment or another, considered his publisher unworthy of him, has still to be conceived.
firsts cost clarity
a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous cost. Paid, so far as I am concerned, joyfully.
sorrow lasts impermanence
Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.
satisfaction misery unhappiness
There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.
vanity self self-justification
There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.
speak-the-truth draws exhilarating
Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.
rotten literature language
Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.
lasts emotion surprise
Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.
ear electronic entertainment information lasting nerves pouring pressure reading relief slower solitary stimulus torrent
We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the torrent of information and entertainment pouring from ever-open electronic jaws. It could end by stupefying us.