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Explore our hand-picked selection of 89 inspiring quotes by Storm Jameson.

About Storm Jameson

  • Born: January 8, 1891
  • Died: September 30, 1986
  • Occupation: Journalist
    • In europe, war is a disease which has been in the family for generations: no one is surprised when it makes another leap. even the patient only attends to it with part of his mind.
    War Europe Mind
    A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas - on this or that body. the statesman who talks of honor - unless he means something else, quite different - is a rogue.
    Mean Honor Fleas
    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.
    Civilization Special Use
    Inevitably, the flood of literary pornography loosed on us is dulling our reactions of surprise or shock. its writers are forced to raise the ante, to provide stronger and stronger stimulants. or try to provide them, since both the manner, the naming of parts and the few inexpressive four-letter words, and the matter, are narrowly limited.
    Trying Stronger Matter
    ... the stomach is near the heart and one appetite pricks on another.
    Heart Appetite Stomach
    If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.
    Compromise Misandry Planets
    Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.
    Emotional Expression Advertising
    Fear is the deep motive of abstract art - fear of a repellent civilization which is dominated by the power of things. ... who can be surprised if, more sensitive than the others, the artist is terrified by the power things have acquired over us?
    Art Civilization Sensitive
    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.
    Eye Risk Mind
    Each time that i have run away - and from a habit it quickly became an illness - i have betrayed someone. myself, but not always only myself.
    Running Betrayed Illness
    Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.
    Heart Long Fiction
    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.
    Intelligent Men Careers
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