invaders always destroy libraries. Storm Jameson More Quotes by Storm Jameson More Quotes From Storm Jameson Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world. Storm Jameson defeated world ideas 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 earth men lying 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 able moments past If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature. Storm Jameson events energy thinking 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 steps long past 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. Storm Jameson grief loss thinking Failures to love are irremediable and irredeemable. Storm Jameson 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 rotten language literature 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 skeletons writing reality There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute. Storm Jameson minutes life world 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 mind lying thinking 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. Storm Jameson unique animal men ... 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 emotion remember people You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless. Storm Jameson useless want desire 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 clarity cost firsts When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after. Storm Jameson revolution Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human. Storm Jameson sadistic torture literature All writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call a concern to understand what is happening in the world, and must engage themselves, in their writing, to promote no comfortable lies, of the sort which people will pay well to be told rather than the truth. Storm Jameson writing lying people 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. Storm Jameson novelists stills moments Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure. Storm Jameson heart long fiction
