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Storm Jameson Quotes

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive; this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle Picture Quote #1

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable Picture Quote #1

In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase Picture Quote #1

As often as not our whole self... engages itself in the most trivial of things, the shape of a particular hill, a road in the town in which we lived as children, the movement of wind in grass. The things we shall take with us when we die will nearly all be small things Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past Picture Quote #1

I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible Picture Quote #1

... I used words without precautions. I wanted to disappear into them, I fled into the bovaryism of the writer trying to create an effect Picture Quote #1

... the truth is exactly that which can’t be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first Picture Quote #1

I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind Picture Quote #1

A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself Picture Quote #1

Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces Picture Quote #1

The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself Picture Quote #1

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Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure Picture Quote #1

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it Picture Quote #1

War, for any cause, is inexcusable. There is nothing which excuses us for the beastly ingenuity of our wars. Only fools, only the diseased, think that we are served by killing the strong young men with machines Picture Quote #1

The older I grow the more sharply I mistrust words. So few of them have any meaning left. It is impossible to write one sentence in which every word has the bareness and hardness of bones, the reality of the skeleton Picture Quote #1

Truth is the only good and the purest pity.... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison, but a lie that is told for pity or shame breeds such a host of ills that no power on earth can compass their redemption Picture Quote #1

Women will always put persons above ideas... and so they’ll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world Picture Quote #1

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Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic? Picture Quote #1

... we do not remember people as they were. What we remember is the effect they had on us then, but we remember it through an emotion charged with all that has since happened to us Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present Picture Quote #1

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle Picture Quote #1

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The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it (Storm Jameson Quotes) 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? (Storm Jameson Quotes) There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive; this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle (Storm Jameson Quotes) The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable (Storm Jameson Quotes) In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase (Storm Jameson Quotes) As often as not our whole self... engages itself in the most trivial of things, the shape of a particular hill, a road in the town in which we lived as children, the movement of wind in grass. The things we shall take with us when we die will nearly all be small things (Storm Jameson Quotes) 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 (Storm Jameson Quotes) 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 (Storm Jameson Quotes) One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past (Storm Jameson Quotes) I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible (Storm Jameson Quotes) ... I used words without precautions. I wanted to disappear into them, I fled into the bovaryism of the writer trying to create an effect (Storm Jameson Quotes) ... the truth is exactly that which can’t be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much (Storm Jameson Quotes) 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 (Storm Jameson Quotes) Jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first (Storm Jameson Quotes) I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind (Storm Jameson Quotes) A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself (Storm Jameson Quotes) Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces (Storm Jameson Quotes) The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself (Storm Jameson Quotes) Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure (Storm Jameson Quotes) There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it (Storm Jameson Quotes) War, for any cause, is inexcusable. There is nothing which excuses us for the beastly ingenuity of our wars. Only fools, only the diseased, think that we are served by killing the strong young men with machines (Storm Jameson Quotes) The older I grow the more sharply I mistrust words. So few of them have any meaning left. It is impossible to write one sentence in which every word has the bareness and hardness of bones, the reality of the skeleton (Storm Jameson Quotes) Truth is the only good and the purest pity.... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison, but a lie that is told for pity or shame breeds such a host of ills that no power on earth can compass their redemption (Storm Jameson Quotes) Women will always put persons above ideas... and so they’ll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world (Storm Jameson Quotes) Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic? (Storm Jameson Quotes) ... we do not remember people as they were. What we remember is the effect they had on us then, but we remember it through an emotion charged with all that has since happened to us (Storm Jameson Quotes) 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 (Storm Jameson Quotes) The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present (Storm Jameson Quotes) The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle (Storm Jameson Quotes)

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