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
afford beings clear ends fanatical helpless human justice mere million people space survive
Mere human beings can't 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.
grief loss thinking
In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in the loss of social and economic privilege, alarms so deeply that they are incapable of unprejudiced thought. They seem to themselves to be thinking, with lucidity and fairness, but since they start from the conviction that change must undoubtedly be for the worse or from settled grief at the thought of losing what is old and lovely, they are doing no more than following a logical sequence of ideas from a false premise.
dying chance novel
If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it.
memories habit ends
Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit.
names series
Any marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings - many of them abortive.
library invaders
invaders always destroy libraries.
wall humanity language
Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses ...
jokes
A joke is a joke or the image of a truth ...
mind company
My mind is not suited to go much into company.
civilization special use
Writers sometimes talk as though they were the only friends of civilization. This is their conceit. But they have special powers to serve -- or to corrupt -- civilization, and are obliged to use them.
france dogma heresy
In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.
disease violence novelists
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.
trying disappear precaution
... I used words without precautions. I wanted to disappear into them, I fled into the bovaryism of the writer trying to create an effect.
memories animal blood
An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or blood. Cruelty begins with the memory, and the pleasures of the memory are impure; they draw their strength along levels where no sun has reached.