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.
dying chance novel
If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it.
names series
Any marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings - many of them abortive.
wall humanity language
Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses ...
mind company
My mind is not suited to go much into company.
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.
jealousy mind suffering
jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.
literature sadistic cruelty
Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.
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.
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.